On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 3:28:40 PM UTC+1, PMario wrote: a) There is no difference between the "start" and the "end" tag. So what > if, you need to nest them >
You have a point - but is it my lack of imagination or is this relevant to anything else other than block? I'm not sure what nested monospace or linebreaks mean. Regardless, one could perhaps use the intuitive and established practice of repeating the command as is done in e.g bullet list levels. Perhaps >block mary had a >>block (or >block>block ) little >> lamb > b) IMO typing ``` is much easier [...and...] the ">mono" tags interfere > with the text in edit mode. > I agree with the "interfere" aspect (altho only a minor problem) but while ```, """, <<< etc may look aesthetic my point is that these are magic commands and that they are too many that have to be learnt individually. How can we make these many formatting commands (or whatever these commands are called) more coherent? c) there may be some text eg: > linebreaks that should not indicate a """ > block, but start a single line quote with the text "linebreak" ... > I did use a space to create a difference between ">linebreak" and "> > linebreak" ... As you can see, it is quite errorprone > LOL, maybe someone wants to type """ also! I think the number of times people write >linebreak literally are quite few. That said, I do just realize that the > sign is sometimes used in emails to indicate copied text. However, > is just an example of course. Could be | , ~ ... So imo at the end there will be much more complexity and much more to type > :) > Well, complexity can bring simplicity and this is my very aim. Maybe we can come up with something quick and easy to remember? One running concern I have with TW is that I think we loose potential users because of quirks like these. The threshold to get into TW is unfortunately a bit high and these commands used from the very beginning are probably particularly important in this respect (as opposed to the later thresholds where you're forced to dabble with js and stuff.) However, this makes me wonder if it is possible with *alternative *syntax for these features? Both """ and something else. Maybe difficult to implement, I have no idea, but it would probably appeal to different people and thus increase the appeal of TW. I will raise this question on the dev board instead and hope to continue the discussion there. Always thought provoking and valuable thoughts from you Mario. <:-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
