Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
Tomasz Wegrzanowski saith:
Any idea to do it [indenting] in a saner way ?
Just use paragraphs within list items without bullets. It really doesn't matter if the bullets display in non-CSS browsers.
interesting idea.
Explicitly giving <blockquote> instead of : works, for mathematics and stuff - but the unnumbered lists may be fine for this.
Is there anywhere in Wikipedia where definition lists (;term :def) are actually used as such?
yes! many places! (;term :def) is a really neat piece of wiki markup, and DLs are very good for certain things.
Perhaps we should do this:
1) BLOCKQUOTE is made with an initial ">" character (seen on other wikis, looks like quoted text in emails) 2) Initial ":" character makes a list with bullets killed off, as described above.
Drawbacks: <math> stuff needs to be fixed, since pages current begin a line ":<math>" to indent it. However, I suggest that our parser treats a line that begins with "<math>" as special, and sticks a "<div class="math">" around it, which can then define nice indentation and so on. (and maybe even a fancy border like those that some people have been putting in by hand and that I've been removing)