On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:03:36AM +0100, Timwi wrote:
Yes, the second one is consistent with <table>, <math> & so on.
That alone doesn't make it simpler for non-programmers.
I've already mentioned in the past that I gravely dislike <math>...</math> because it is very awkward to type and very un-wiki. Now adding <hiero>...</hiero> only makes it worse. Why duplicate the word "hiero" anyway? It's not like we're going to nest a hiero inside a math or vice-versa.
So, I still maintain that a much more sensical syntax would be something like (this is just an example):
[!math x^2 + y^2 = z^2 !] [!hiero b-l:a-h !]
I had previously even advocated to use, say, [[!...!]] for maths and then perhaps [[^...^]], [[#...#]] etc. for other things in order to avoid anglocentrism, but I suppose that is a lost cause.
math is just a word - [[!...%^$#%$#%]] is a string of random characters. Guess which one is easier ?