Yeah, Markdown users in the hard sciences would trigger that
constantly. best, Joe

On 2/18/09, Yuri Takhteyev <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Right. I actually think that using ~ as a range operator (essentially) is
>> fairly rare outside of electronic circles, at least in US English.
>
> In other words, by at least 5% of the world population. :)
>
> But even just looking at the US English, ~ is often used for
> approximation, for the home directory, for equivalence, etc. So,
> things like "The cost is ~ $3", "cd to ~ before doing this", "The N
> needs a ~ over it", "If we assume x ~ y, then" will all suddenly
> become definition lists?
>
>> Term 1 o Definition a blah blah blah blah blah
>> Term 2 o Definition b foo bar baz
>> Term 3 o Definition c even more blah blah blah
>
> É. O unico problema é o "o" do Portugues, que é um artigo nessa linguagem.
>
> (Our friend "o" is a _word_ in some languages.)
>
> - yuri
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UC Berkeley School of Information
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
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