On 1/22/08, Jim Wilson wilson.jim.r@gmail.com wrote:
If you want to keep the colon, you could use:
;Example<nowiki>:</nowiki> :Blah blah
Sure. The point is that whenever the construct ";foo:" is used at present, it is almost certainly an error, as there is no benefit to a trailing colon. The prevailing attitude to wikitext syntax has generally been to try and pre-empt such "errors" and keep the behaviour intuitive, if I'm not mistaken.
I'd think that your suggested change would be too much of a deviation from current syntax - but I defer to the community for further input.
I really don't think so. For example:
;foo:blah:blah
There the second colon is literal.
So it's quite arguable that the colon is a *separator* that splits the definition from the term ("definiendum"?). If there's no definition, then there's no separator, so it's just a literal.
Incidentally, does anyone have a readily available corpus of wikitext, perhaps from Wikipedia? Something in the format of a bunch of text files would be really convenient.
Steve