Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
It's not only that - `|' becomes magical not only at the begining of line (what would be relatively harmless), but also inside it.
It will be only magical if * it is used inside a table and * if a '|' is the first char at the beginning of the line Or a "!", as of latest (yes, <th> has finally arrived!)
The only use of '|' I can think of in text (not counting links, they won't be affected) is for ASCII drawings, and for these, the line always starts with a blank anyway.
Magnus said he's going to put it live on all pedias. That's definitely the time for giving exact description.
I put one up at http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_table_markup
Magnus