Tarquin wrote:
TMTOWTDY I suppose...
What does that mean?
Toby Bartels wrote:
I'm not about to get upset if you change by <b> to ''', however, and could be convinced to follow your lead exactly if you work at it; I'll only get upset if you mess with <var>, as explained in another post (not yet made, or look on Jan's page).
I change <b> around the article title in the first sentence.
I do that too.
I haven't changed any <var> tags, though I have created formulae myself with '' around variables, because I'd seen it done like that. The $$ for <var> idea is interesting, but I don't think it will make formulae significantly easier on the eye in raw form.
I don't think that the '' version is easy on the eye either. Easy on the eye would be a limited implementation of TeX that would render the wiki input $$x^2 y = z_1$$ into HTML as <var>x</var><sup>2</sup><var>y</var> = <var>z</var><sub>1</sub>. But that opens up its own whole new can of worms. OTOH, $$x$$<sup>2</sup>$$y$$ = $$z$$<sub>1</sub> would be an improvement, and $$x$$^^2^^$$y$$ = $$z$$__1__ would be even better. (This won't quite work, since ^^ and __ can't be interpreted as toggles, but I'm not sure how to deal with that right now.)
-- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia-l@math.ucr.edu