On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 03:27, david parsons <[email protected]> wrote:
> Arno Hautala <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>I could have sworn that this was done using dashes.
>>-Apparently that's not so.-
>
>   But how do would you visually differentiate that markup from
>   regular hyphens in text?   (There are already cases -- the lowly
>   underscore springs to mind -- where the reference markdown does
>   the non-obvious thing.)

Agreed.  How common is it to actually want to strike out text anyway?
I've clearly not done it much; thinking a non-existent feature was the
standard.
It's just not something that's useful or common enough to warrant
inclusion, especially when using actual HTML is a simple and effective
solution.


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