Kate Turner wrote:
Jim Higson wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical:
#*#*:# who would write this awful wikitext?
<list type="indent">
note that ":" is not "indent", but rather a definition list, i.e. <dl>,
<dt> and <dd> in html. compare:
; term : definition ; term 2 : definition 2 : definition without term
the use of : for indentation is a side-effect of how definition lists are generally rendered in browsers.
Thanks for the note.
I'd used : as a bauble[1] since that's how wiki2xml and (I think) flexbisonparse handle them.
I hadn't come across the ; and : notation before.
[1] My converter calls the list chars (# and *) 'baubles', which is nice when you're writing code to decorate (parse) trees. One of the things with parsers is you have to think of so many names for things!
A definition list is still a list - maybe <list type=definition> would be a good representation for items starting with ;
-- Jim