LDC wrote:

I should be subscribed now. ....

Welcome back!

.... The syntax of a language intended for non-technical folks should be as simple and unsurprizing as possible.

I agree.

If we can throw a bone to the old hands now and then to make their job easier too, that's fine--that's why I added the pipe trick in the first place.

An extension of the pipe trick to also work with comma titles - perhaps. :)

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What I /would/ support is changing the piped syntax so that it was interpreted at render time rather than save time; so that, for example, [[Mercury (planet) | ]] would remain in the page source code as is, rather than being expanded right away.

Hm. I think you have convinced me. It is not much extra work at all to simply place a pipe after the closing parens. And if this syntax is kept as is then newbies are much more likely to discover this trick on their own - in the same way as they quickly discover that ''' placed before and after a term bolds the term when it is displayed. Keep it simple.

--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

WikiKarma: Added a bunch of events to [[February 12]] and updated all the year and many of the other articles linked from that page.

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