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 > > -- > http://spu.tnik.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Markdown-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss > -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall ACCURATE Postdoctoral Research Associate UC Berkeley School of Information Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy http://josephhall.org/ _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
