A problem I see with your suggestion about not including newlines is
that interpreting the form "xxx ~ yyy" as a DT/DD pair precludes the
use of " ~ " (space-tilde-space) in some other ways it's likely to be
used ~ for instance, as an alternative to the plain hyphen.
I also suppose that's why the suggestion in 2005 was for double
colons. Colon-newline seems pretty clear, if anything is. (Mind you, I
am NOT involved in writing implementations whatsoever; I'm just
watching the mailing list.)
Tom Humiston
On 18 Feb 2009, at 4:46 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
On Jul 27, 2005, at 7:33 AM, John Gruber wrote:
And since the ones with multiple terms and/or definitions are the
exception, not the norm, I think in the common cases, you'd wind up
with something that looks like this:
Term 1:: Definition a blah blah blah blah blah
Term 2:: Definition b foo bar baz
Term 3:: Definition c even more blah blah blah
Was this ever implemented? I haven't noticed it in the documentation
for PHP Markdown Extra or MultiMarkdown.
I think that, using the tilde as I've suggested in this thread, this
can be even better:
Term 1 ~ Definition a blah blah blah blah blah
Term 2 ~ Definition b foo bar baz
Term 3 ~ Definition c even more blah blah blah
Basically, it's the same rule, only you don't have to have a newline
before the definition starts. Also, the single ~ is a little less
“unnatural” looking than the double : (and I say that as a Perl
hacker, so I'm used to “::”!).
Best,
David
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