* David E. Wheeler <[email protected]> [2009-02-19 00:00]: > Although I think that it's a bit of a red herring.
I don’t know. John has stated that one of his rules when making design decisions is how likely it is that users will trigger a particular interpretation accidentally when they *don’t* want it. Another is how likely is it that they will choose this construct when writing in plaintext outside of a pre-assumed context that the document is Markdown. The tilde doesn’t seem any more likely to be chosen independently than the colon-based syntaxes, and seems significantly more likely to be used for other meanings. I don’t want to be down on your proposal or anything – it really looks a whole lot nicer to a reader of the plaintext version. But I think it is a significantly more problematic choice when considering marginally-proficient (or in the context of something like weblog comments, possibly entirely unaware!) writers of Markdown. Thorny problem. :-( Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
