Mat & PMario
 

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

Dead right. And actually the finite nature of standard available keyboard 
characters is *already an issue*. For instance "backtick" is not standard 
on all keyboards. Italian keyboard, for instance, lacks it. User has to get 
round such issues by getting OS to change keyboard mapping; or learning 
keyboard numeric escape sequences to input characters; or using the editor 
"stamp" tool to hold boilerplate for it, or some other utility/method. 

The messiness around all this is ultimately a consequence of hardware 
design. One that can be relatively easily addressed. However it surely 
needs better adjunctive documentation to assist users understand what to 
do--even for existing WikiText.
 

> Mat: The point is to access ones own look/behaviour as smoothly as with 
>> e.g *
>>
>
Right. That makes it "Markdown Like" i.e. the trigger markup is simple and 
*readable/semantic 
as plain text*. Point is markdown is a simple approach to insert HTML 
elements (with attributes if needed, esp for classes) *in order to preserve 
plain text readability*. Styling is then applied via CSS in standard way. 
So, wanting to extend that in standard content type modestly with one or 
two WikiText custom elements I grasp. 

How? Obvious method would be a "custom pragma" that permitted definition of 
new character/pair of characters.

But a design issue tension exists between "available characters" & "my new 
markup schema". Its inevitable! But that issue--paucity of characters on 
default setups, including variable layouts on different keyboards 
etc--needs addressing another way and should not be allowed to muddy the 
waters of the intent to achieve "Markdown Like" extensions to the pragma.

TT

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