On 1/22/08, Jim Wilson <wilson.jim.r(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If you want to keep the colon, you could use:
;Example<nowiki>:</nowiki>
:Blah blah
Sure. The point is that whenever the construct ";foo:" is used at
present, it is almost certainly an error, as there is no benefit to a
trailing colon. The prevailing attitude to wikitext syntax has
generally been to try and pre-empt such "errors" and keep the
behaviour intuitive, if I'm not mistaken.
I'd think that your suggested change would be too
much of a deviation
from current syntax - but I defer to the community for further input.
I really don't think so. For example:
;foo:blah:blah
There the second colon is literal.
So it's quite arguable that the colon is a *separator* that splits the
definition from the term ("definiendum"?). If there's no definition,
then there's no separator, so it's just a literal.
Incidentally, does anyone have a readily available corpus of wikitext,
perhaps from Wikipedia? Something in the format of a bunch of text
files would be really convenient.
Steve