On Wednesday, May 11, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Mathias Schindler
<neubau(a)presroi.de> wrote:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Here are a few syntax features that I propose we deprecate for 1.5,
> the reasons are mainly to simplify the the wikitext to make parsing
> simpler.
[Snip: <p>, <i>, and <b> elements, and the {{msg:xxx}} transclude tag.]
Hi Ævar,
I support all three points on your list
Yes, they seem sensible.
(why do you want to keep <br> and <pre>?)
The <pre> element allows styling which pre-pending a ' ' to each line
doesn't, which can be useful (and is used in places).
The <br> element is used a lot to enforce linebreaks where you can't do it
otherwise (inline as template variables, for instance) on w:en, at the very
least. I don't see that it would be particularly easy to avoid using them.
Depreciating it would result in error messages? A
simple handbook
addition? A social pressure to convert remaining ones?
I'd imagine an automatic conversion would be easiest to manage.
Yours,
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