On Feb 18, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Tom Humiston wrote:
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.
Yeah. I think ~~ would work okay, too, and gets around that problem. 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 Although I think that it's a bit of a red herring.
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.)
I didn't see anyone suggest tilde for definitions in 2005, though I did notice that Aristotle tried it out for terms. I agree with him that tildes didn't work so well there. :-)
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