On Wed, 7 May 2003, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 23:56:54 -0500 From: Lee Daniel Crocker lee@piclab.com Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Chat about Wikipedia performance?
(Nick Reinking nick@twoevils.org):
As far as the \n closing, I can change it to behave like that, although it seems clearer to me if it continues to span lines (ala HTML). It doesn't bother me either way (other than a bit more coding). Do a lot of people not close their ''/'''/'''''s?
Wiki syntax is a line-based syntax. There is /no/ wiki markup that spans lines. It makes editing much simpler: if you make a mistake and forget to close something, it gets closed off quickly. HTML is not designed to be human-editable; wiki syntax is.
Not that that's not enough, but of course, lines (that don't continue on the next one without a *, :, etc.) are also enclosed by (unclosed! grr) <p> tags, and you can't put a <em> in the middle of a <p> and close it after the next <p> and call it good HTML.