Urs C Muff &lt;ursm(a)mindtouch.com&gt; writes: The problem is that we are using the wrong markup language. Those who are not familiar with our markup and--more important--with our structuring rules, can write plain text. Sooner or later we will have to apply semantic tags anyway. The German team already invented a tagging schema for biographical data. Let's switch to XML now :) -- http://www.gnu.franken.de/ke/ | ,__o | _-\_<, | (*)/'(*) Key fingerprint = F138 B28F B7ED E0AC 1AB4 AA7F C90A 35C3 E9D0 5D1C

On Sunday 30 January 2005 17:18, Urs C Muff wrote: the interesting thing is - they do! you'd be surprised how fast reasonably intelligent people learn by imitating others. another point: it's not a problem when novice users write plain text without any markup. there are enough other users who do know the markup and will write it for them afterwards or teach them how to do it. btw: we don't want visual markup, we want semantic markup. personally, i do not want to clean up after people using wysiwyg editors if it looks like the kind of HTML frontpage creates.. daniel