On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:44 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
See my blog entry for more detailed description of why I prefer the
tilde to the colon for this purpose. The best things about it are
that it makes for a more natural bullet, already has precedent in
dictionaries, and suggest equivalency if you're familiar with
mathematics, which makes for a nice mnemonic.
Comments? Has this ship already sailed?
Aristotle was kind enough to point me to some older posts on the
subject of definition lists, where I saw this message from Mssr. Gruber:
On Jul 27, 2005, at 7:33 AM, John Gruber wrote:
And since the ones with multiple terms and/or definitions are the
exception, not the norm, I think in the common cases, you'd wind up
with something that looks like this:
Term 1:: Definition a blah blah blah blah blah
Term 2:: Definition b foo bar baz
Term 3:: Definition c even more blah blah blah
Was this ever implemented? I haven't noticed it in the documentation
for PHP Markdown Extra or MultiMarkdown.
I think that, using the tilde as I've suggested in this thread, this
can be even better:
Term 1 ~ Definition a blah blah blah blah blah
Term 2 ~ Definition b foo bar baz
Term 3 ~ Definition c even more blah blah blah
Basically, it's the same rule, only you don't have to have a newline
before the definition starts. Also, the single ~ is a little less
“unnatural” looking than the double : (and I say that as a Perl
hacker, so I'm used to “::”!).
Best,
David
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