Follow-up Comment #27, task #2874 (project savane):
About tags:
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About the tag styles, sorry to be picky :P, while I like #verbatim#, I
dislike #/verbatim# (seems weird).
How about
+verbatim+ (opening)
-verbatim- (closing)
+nomarkup+
-nomarkup-
...
or
#+verbatim#
#-verbatim#
#+nomarkup#
#-nomarkup#
About markup behavior:
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The reason I'd like verbatim to print things as they are is the idea that
people that will use this will want it to really do it's best to print things
as they were "verbatim". And fixed-fonts and all just make this possible.
On the other hand, it may be useful as well to have the nomarkup, just in
case the only thing that matter is to get unaltered characters but while the
output style does not matter.
Finally, I don't want to go for <code> and all that tags widely used so far,
first because they refer to things known only... by people that already knows
(popularity does not mean being popular to an elite), second, the point is to
avoid to alter content by mistakes, and to avoid that the best is to avoid
XML/HTML like tags that are expected to use by people not especially aware
that using them alter their content.
As I already said I think, I would not like having someone copying/paste a
bit of HTML "aacc <code>ada</code>adad" to have it's content altered just
because he did not knew that Savane would convert "<code>".
With alternative tags that are not referring to a know markup language like
HTML, I guess we drastically reduces the odds that it happens.
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