PMario wrote:
>
> The problem is, that we don't have enough unique "indicators" left. 
>

For one I'd think specifically § does occur on all western keyboards but, 
regardless, if the OP is made fully general in the sense that the user can 
define *his own* indicators then he can use whichever indicator he wants. 
This should be particularly appealing for those that don't even use western 
keyboards at all. 

 

> The point is to access ones own look/behaviour as smoothly as with e.g *
>>
>
> eg: I'm working on a new plugin that will allow us to style paragraphs. It 
> uses the "accent" aka "Tick"
>

(Are you really working on that or are you just making example? How would 
it be different from simply styling bullets instead of requiring a new 
indicator? But if you do want a special indicator, then why not go with § 
which was *literally* created to define paragraphs?)

 

> <div class="custom-div">....</div>


Your second example is
>
> @@.custom-class
> * element 1
> * element 2
> @@
>

First, you're only talking about styling. As I mention, I envision that the 
indicator could also be a macro/code (like what I assume is done with pipe 
characters to create tables).

But more cricitally you misunderstand the point with my proposal. The point 
is *not *to achieve a specific visual end result. That can be done with @@ 
or with html. Rather, the point is (1) to *simplify authoring,* and 
(2) quoting Gruber:

“The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable 
as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or 
formatting instructions.”

Surely, you must agree it is both friendlier for the eye and much simpler 
to type:

§ So this is a "special" paragraph
§ This one also

..than e.g:

@@.myclass So this is a "special" paragraph@@
@@.myclass This one also@@

...and, again, that even only looks to the styling aspects. Really, it 
should be:

<<mymacro """So this is a "special" paragraph""">>
<<mymacro "This one also">>

...but this would cause further problems with other wikitext like

<<mymacro "So this is a <<anothermacro special>> paragraph">>

...and so we'd need to go full wikitext coding on it, leaving pretty markup 
all together.

Things like * and : and | and > are very useful and elegant. My proposal is 
about extending this.

<:-)

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