> {}--people confuse them for ()
Weird.
> - as the "unordered list" leading character, a lot of people like
> to sign stuff with two dashes leading (e.g, --Bijan Parsia) and
> this breaks hard; also
Yup. We've seen this too. I guess *s would be better, but those are
already used.
> _____ as <hr>, I find it hard to type, hard to read and navigate
> around, and tend to have to go back and replace my -----s; My
> students (who aren't habituated to -----) seem to have similar
> difficulties.
In my formatter, you only need one _. Habituated to ---- is no excuse.
> ** as link delimiters, but that's been longstanding ;)
Super agreed.
> [] for link formation; this is standard in WikiWorks wikis, and
> and it seems to work rather well. I'd love to use it for
> footnote type comments as well.
Agreed. I would have use [] in the syntax, but we needed backwards
compatibility to **, so no deal.
I think we are all somewhat agree on what the right syntax should be. I
just don't know if it is worth switching. I have been loosely working on
a syntax for my personal swiki project. I think it is coming out okay.
I'm putting it on the backburner, because I need to get some work done on
Beta 10. Right now I have so much planned for Beta 10, you will probably
not recognize it.
Peace and Luck!
Je77
