Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <brentdax(a)gmail.com> writes:
Karl Eichwalder <ke(a)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.
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