On Fri, 13 May 2005, Timwi wrote:
Andrew Rodland wrote:
I'd also like to suggest the removal of the workaround (occupying most
of the first half of parser.php doQuotes) dealing with confusion of
quotes-as-text and quotes-as-markup within words. In other words, the
workaround provides that "l'''italic''plain" renders as
"l<i>italic</i>plain".
This is incorrect -- it renders as "l'<i>italic</i>plain", and
this is
intended. As has already been mentioned, this is used extremely often on
French wikis.
I'm sorry but I have been out for some days, and I missed this discussion.
The "l'''italic'' plain" syntax is *extensively* used in -
guess it - the
Italian wikipedia, Actually, the most common use is probably
"l''''italic''' plain", which renders as
"l'<b>italic</b> plain".
Putting in <nowiki> tags, or whatever XML-complaint tag, is NOT an option,
even if it's "simpler" in technical terms.
<article>
<title>On XML wikipedia syntax</title>
<body>
<p type="normal">It is <i>really</i> hard to write proper
<a
href="http://xml-site">XML</a> or HTML, don't you
think?</p><br />
<p type="emphasys">
This is exactly why a wikisyntax was developed.
</p>
<p style="conclusion">
<header level="MediaWiki == equivalent">So...</header>
No, we can't force people to learn XML in order to write a wikipedia
article.
</p>
</body>
</article>
The current mediawiki syntax is a hack, but it's doing a nice job of
making things simpler for the majority of editors, which aren't
technically-oriented. While changing it to allow better future
developments is good, it's not worth it if we scare away 90% of our users.
Alfio