[Wikipedia-l] Re: Parsing

[tarquin]

The Cunctator wrote:

>On 7/27/02 11:24 AM, "tarquin" <tarquin at planetunreal.com> wrote:
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>>I would hesitate before deprecating <b> and <i> in wiki markup, but I
>>change those to the equivalent ' whenever I see them, and I don't think
>>they should be encouraged.
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>That's what deprecating means.
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>I think it's good practice to discourage HTML, but not ban it. TMTOWTDI.
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Ah. I stand corrected. From my experiences with HTML I had assume that 
in hacker lingo "deprecated" was used to mean the opposite of "beta" 
("doesn't work yet" ;) ie "doesn't work any more".

In response to Sean Barrett: I find that Wiki markup has so few rules 
they've stuck pretty quickly. However, if '' and ''' are cryptic to you, 
don't use them. Stick to plain text, and the only thing you need to 
remember is "\n\n" makes a paragraph break. A well-written article has 
formatting as a mere embellishment: it is clear without it.