On Nov 19, 2003, at 11:49, Evan Prodromou wrote:
So, the way MediaWiki markup works now, something that
looks like
"=this=" gets rendered as "<h1>this</h1>", and something
that looks
like "==this==" gets rendered as "<h2>this</h2>", and so
on with more
equal signs making deeper HTML header tags.
The problem with this is that the stylesheets we have render <h1> tags
really, really big. It seems like people try to avoid using one- or
even two-equals headers, just because they render outrageously large.
<h1> is supposed to be used for the page title only. You can stick one
in manually (either as <h1> or as = foo =) but, just like putting
headers in an incorrect stacking order, it will seriously confuse
things such as the table of contents and header numbering for those
that turn on that option.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)