On 11/28/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
There has to be a better way, surely. Anything using the same character for different things is going to run into trouble...
Can't be avoided. By definition in Wikitext every character is valid as a literal representation of itself, so there is always a kind of ambiguity. Is * as the start of a line a list, or a line starting with *? Is [[foo]] a link or someone talking about wikitext, etc. So:
Until you actually want to use a backquote. Doesn't happen very often in English, but does it get used in other languages?
Right, `` conflicts with ` twice. But we can't do better than that. I would also be curious if anyone actually uses `. It's a pretty dubious character, invented by some typewriter hack.
Steve