On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 06:58, Nick Reinking wrote:
The Howto page certainly makes it look like you have to enclose your text, and in all the pages I've edited, I've never come across a page that leaves open emphasis marks.
That's right. If you don't have both close and open marks, they're left as literal '' and ''' sequences.
Also, there are lots of line spanning constructs in wikitext. <pre>, <nowiki>, <tr>, <td>, etc. Now, I _know_ that (with the exception of <nowiki>) that these are HTML constructs (and not Wikitext constructs), but to the average user, they are exactly the same. So, some things span multiple lines, and some things don't. I think that is confusing.
Yes, that's why we should destroy the pseudo-HTML and make things consistent and happy. :)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)