On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 18:54 +0100, Milo Casagrande wrote: > 2010/1/5 Shaun McCance <[email protected]>: > > > > My question is, does it make sense to you as writers? > > It certainly seems much easier once you understand it, > > but does it boggle you at first glance? I want to make > > things as simple as possible, but sometimes too simple > > can just be confusing. > > > > Thoughts? > > When at first I saw this: > <list> > <p>One</p> > <p>Two</p> > <p>Three</p> > </list> > > I thought: are those three different items in a list, or is it a list > with one item and three paragraphs?
Right, that's what I was afraid of. We're all used to having some sort of list item marker (DocBook's listitem, HTML's li). So a list without marker elements is jarring. When people see this for the first time, I'm not sure they'll be able to guess its meaning. > Maybe I'm used with the more-typing syntax (even if gedit snippet FTW) > so at first it was a little bit weird to me and it took a little bit > to get me in, but it looks interestingly easy to use and to get used. Yeah, I think it's a fairly simple solution once you understand it. It's just a question of whether it's worth the potential confusion. > FWIW, from my personal experience, what I feel more complicated are > tables rather than lists. In my experience, tables are complicated in any language. ;-) -- Shaun McCance http://syllogist.net/ _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
