I don't care if I type **bold** or <b>bold</b>. However, I dislike:
<ol>
<li>Item One
<ol><li>Item One.One</li>
<li>Item One.Two</li></ol>
</li>
<li>Item Two</li>
</ol>
Or worse yet, table structures. Isn't:
* Item One
** Item One.One
** Item One.Two
* Item Two
or
|| Header 1 || Header 2 ||
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
a bit easier?
BTW... No one is asking you to learn 5 wiki syntaxes a day. There are 3
major wiki syntaxes, Markdown, Textile and Creole. You will likely run into
them in other areas of your programming life as well. We are simply asking
that a set standard be adopted so you don't have to deal with everyone has
their own idea. We are also asking that it be adopted wholly.
Jeremy
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From: "Twylite" <twyl...@crypt.co.za>
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 5:27 PM
To: <fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org>
Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Wiki Formatting?
> Joshua Paine wrote:
>> But that's just it: any of the major wiki engines would be better. So
>> why not just use one? I'd rather write textile than fossil wiki. I
>> imagine most textile users would rather write markdown than fossil wiki.
>>
>> Just because we can't make everyone happy doesn't mean we have to make
>> almost everyone unhappy.
>>
> I'd rather write in HTML. Why? Because then I don't have to relearn a
> markup syntax 5 times a day.
>
> The current Blog/Wiki markup situation is ridiculous. Everyone has
> their own idea on how you can simplify <b>bold</b> to '''bold''' or
> **bold** or [b]bold[/b] or /b{bold}, and everyone likes to fool
> themselves into believing that their 3-keystroke bold is somehow quicker
> or easier or more readable than someone else's 3-keystroke bold. And
> the result is that as one moves from a GTalk conversation with a friend,
> to an e-mail to a colleague, to a bug report for a Trac-based project
> that you depend on, to a note in your personal PmWiki, to a Skype
> conversion with a client, to a fix on Wikipedia, to a Blogger post, and
> finally to a Fossil doc update, that you end up attempting to use 8
> different markup syntaxes.
>
> When you work in an environment that enjoys reuse of and cooperation
> with other projects, having to learn different markup for each project
> becomes a big drag on productivity. HTML is the most widely known
> markup language; it is fully compatible across implementations, is
> unambiguous, and has support for all the things you may want to tell a
> browser to display.
>
> Regards,
> Twylite
>
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