Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:47:27PM +0300, Gutza wrote:
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:51:46PM +0200, Magnus Manske wrote: I'm not a great fan of it. Can you provide complete specification of how is it supposed to behave ? It seems to be stealing whole 3 characters - {, }, and |, and to be much more ambiguous than it should.
It only steals one character--"{"--and at that, only at the beginning of a paragraph. Not bad if you ask me (not that you did), 'cause I don't think there are so many paragraphs in Wikipedia starting with a curly bracket. It does "steal" the other characters you mention, plus the exclamation mark I suggested, at the beginning of a paragraph *within* a table. But one you open a table, you're aware those are mandatory, so no worries there.
Table is not like the math mode, which is completely separate from normal wiki syntax, but something inside what all the wiki syntax is supposed to be usable. And for something like that, it steals a bit too many characters.
How should I put it? It's *ONE* character *COMBINATION*! If one character combination is too many, well, I don't know, maybe you're right. I don't think it is too many though. Do you understand what I mean about it only stealing one character combination? If you don't start a table by using "{|" at the beginning of a line, "{" or "|" at the beginning of a line would be rendered as-is. Using "{", "|" or even "{|" anywhere else but the beginning of a line would be rendered as-is as well. Maybe I'm missing something though, please clarify your position if I overlooked something.
And what about precise description of this markup ?
Given the fact that, if you read the rest of this thread, this implementation is currently under discussion, I wouldn't expect the developer to start typing a description just yet.
Gutza