On 4/11/06, Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
We agreed on standards for articles in these matters. We can do that for the relatively low number of article titles this would affect.
I just suspect that if the possibilities are there, it will become quite fraught (unless the policies are very clear). Someone will be going "but company FOOBar" *always* writes the Bar in italics, and Foo in bold. But I don't think that Wikipedia should respect that.
But you're right, we should leave that one to the community to manage.
I'd just use our usual WikiMarkup plus HTML and have it limited through the manual of style. Inventing a whole new markup (and the appropriate new parser) for a few titles which people will have to learn in addition to the existing one doesn't seem prudent, somehow :-)
True. :) But the parser could be as simple as replace(replace(s, "<", "<"), "<sup>", "<sup>") etc.
Your list (punctuation, case, sub/sup) seems good, although I'd allow italics as well (I don't have an example, though). With only the manual of style limiting markup, we can expand it where necessary.
I have an example. [[Prima facie]] (and other latin expressions), [[ménage à trois]] etc. Would we have any call to allow a title to be *partially* in italics? If not, perhaps you could make a variety of flagtags like:
{{TITLEFIRSTLETTERCAPS}} {{TITLEITALICS}}
...and then somehow deal with superscript/subscript :)
PS if you're hacking on stuff like this, can I request a flag to limit the depth of a contents section? Sometimes having 3rd and 4th level subheadings show up in the contents is just ugly and not helpful...
Steve