Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon brentdax@gmail.com writes:
Karl Eichwalder ke@gnu.franken.de wrote:
Sure, or simply use proper <b>XML markup</b>... This would have the nice side effect that it can span more than a <i>single line</i>.
Yes, I know, XML was not invented here and thus it isn't an option.
If you want to know why it was really done this way instead of muttering inflammitory remarks, see http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyDoesntWikiDoHtml.
I do not ask for HTML, I vote for XML. Our all-time-morphing wiki-syntax is not user-friendly. It keeps developers busy - how boring if we would go for XML as an authoring language! No need to write yet another parser...
The wiki-syntax is short, but not easy. Sometimes whitespace is critical, but you will never know for sure. It is a very limited presentation or layout language.