On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Lex Spoon wrote:
>
>
> > > - 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.
> >
>
>
> How about only triggering list creation if the -'s are in column 1?
See below.
> Actually, I had kinda thought it already worked like that....
It does.
>
> -Lex
^^
(Added by quoting mechanims of my mailer.)
That's why. People also like to start their "signature" on a new line, so
the '-' ends up in the first column.
Old PWS Swiki and (I believe) WikiWikiWeb require 4 or more '-' starting
in the first column to make a <hr>, which sidesteps the problem (in most
cases).
Cheers,
--Bijan.
