On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:24:23PM +1100, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 2/12/07, Eric Astor eastor1@swarthmore.edu wrote:
Just one example - probably of the 5% very hard category:
'''''hello''' hi'' vs. '''''hi'' hello'''
Just to check: Is changing MediaWiki sytnax absolutely out of the question? Using // and ** for italic and bold respectively would solve that problem, be more consistent and more intuitive, and probably not be excessively difficult to phase in, right?
With reference to my similar note elsewhere, let us *please* attempt to utilize reflexes everyone[1] already has, rather than generating even more new markup tags?
Cheers, -- jra [1] Everyone who already has reflexes at all; let's not penalize the smart people *again*.