tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 23 06:43:36 2004

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Re: Mailing list search function // WIKI commands

Mark E. Shoulson ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

christoph.pichlmann wrote:

>From: Philip Newton <[email protected]>
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>>Which is probably why WikiMarkup is *not* like that - because not
>>everyone knows (or wants to know) HTML.
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>No need to know HTML - memorizing that "b" is for "bold", "i" for
>"italic" and "u" would be "underlined" is enough. Not too hard, is it?
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This is a religious war in the offing.  It isn't worth persuing.  
Suffice to say that Wiki chooses not to use markup in the HTML-ish 
sense, but rather punctuation characters, so as not to be intrusive when 
you're reading the plaintext source.  If that bothers you, write to the 
developers of any of the various forms of Wikis (some of which use 
different standards for markup), not to us.

>>I confess that I haven't look on the tlhIngan Hol Wiki for a while but
>>I presume they use the "normal" method of ''double apostrophes'' for
>>italics and '''triple apostrophes''' for bold - which is intended to
>>be easier to read in the source and easier to write
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>It is? Honestly, I thought it was to made it almost impossible to
>understand it.
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We changed the double-apostrophe and triple-apostrophe conventions a bit 
since that would seriously mess up things in Klingon, where words that 
have two consecutive apostrophes are not uncommon.  So we use 
back-quotes and such instead.  The thinking probably is that punctuation 
is easier to ignore than letters.  There is room for disagreement on 
that point, but the place for discussing such disagreement isn't here.

~mark

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