On 4/6/06, Omegatron 9ybf94w02@sneakemail.com wrote:
You can still use <b>bold</b> and <i>italic</i> tags if that's all you mean, though I think that is rare.
Someone would probably change them to ''' or '' respectively, assuming ignorance on the part of the original editor. Hell, I would :)
Ah. It seems to me that emphasis is used more often than simple formatting, and I was changing ''quote marks'' to <i>italic tags</i> in the few cases where it's appropriate, based on the way I learned when I first started editing. Then I was looking through the source code one day, and realized they were both being rendered as italics, so I was confused.
I'm glad you did, otherwise you and I could have been caught in an infinite loop :)
So, if I understand correctly, a bunch of people were misusing emphasis tags to mean italics, so someone changed the emphasis tags to mean italics, and now people are misusing italics tags to mean emphasis? :-)
I don't know about "misuse". We have a strong need for italics, and '' is a very convenient way of getting them.
: Are we going to change the dictionary definition colon markup to render as CSS indentation now, since many people use it for indentation?
:Indentation like this? Sure, that's what the colon in Wiki markup is designed for, as far as I know. I don't think there's even a better way of doing that?
Steve