And using semantic markup in a wrong way is even
worse. There is no way
to distinguish semantic and visual markup use of ''...''
When I started here, they were distinguished by putting semantic
emphasis in ''double quotes'' and visual italics in <i>italic
tags</i>.
Someone would probably change them to '''
or '' respectively, assuming
ignorance on the part of the original editor. Hell, I would :)
Sure, but lots of people misuse other markup, too. We fix their
markup instead of changing the functionality of the software to cater
to them.
I'm glad you did, otherwise you and I could have
been caught in an
infinite loop :)
:-) Well, before the change in rendering, your changes would have
been bad and mine good. Now they're the other way around.
I don't know about "misuse". We have a
strong need for italics, and ''
is a very convenient way of getting them.
Yeah.
:Indentation like this? Sure, that's what the
colon in Wiki markup is
designed for, as far as I know. I don't think there's even a better
way of doing that?
Nope. That's the markup for a dictionary definition:
; Word : definition
; Word 2 : definition 2
; Word 3 : long definition 3
: more of the long definition
: even more
; Word 4
: definition 4
It is commonly used for indentation, and has a similar visual effect,
but indentation would actually be something like this:
<p>Normal paragraph</p>
<p style="margin-left:2em;">Indented paragraph</p>
<p>Normal paragraph</p>