Le 2009-02-19 à 1:52, Yuri Takhteyev a écrit :
Correct. Or one could say there is no way to get any standard blessed
as official here period. The closest you can get is to convince Michel
to add it to Markdown Extra, in which case there is a reasonable
chance that some of the other implementations will add optional
support for it. In this particular case, I find it hard to see this
proposal going very far, though. (Of course, Michel can prove me
wrong.)
It seems I've been called into this discussion. :-)
Well, that whole thread left me wondering. I'm of opinion that using a
tilde is as good as a colon, perhaps even better visually. It has the
advantage of looking better when you add a colon at the end of your
term (which, I think, happen often enough):
Term:
: Definition
Term:
~ Definition
The current syntax using a colon has been there... since PHP Markdown
Extra's debuts (July 2005). There is obviously a lot of documents out
there using it, so there's not way I'll just change it to something
else.
As for accepting the tilde as an alternate marker, there's obviously a
precedent of that: unordered lists which can be made of `*`, `+`, or `-
`, so it wouldn't be counter-nature to add one for definition lists.
On the other hand, that precedent was meant to allow other syntaxes in
common use to work with Markdown; I'm not sure any syntax we can come
with for definition lists is already in common use. Definition lists
are already some sort of specialized niche syntax within Markdown and
HTML: useful when you need one, but not something a lot of people care
for or even know it exists.
So in the end I'm pretty much ambivalent to this proposal: I like it
but I don't think it's worth wasting another marker character and
dealing with possible clashes (legitimate text with a tilde in it).
That said, perhaps I'll change my mind the next time I have to write a
definition list.
--
Michel Fortin
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