On Jun 22, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Simon Bull wrote:
* The colon is used more commonly in content than the pipe, and,
* ':' is markdown syntax denoting a definition list.
Actually, it's in used for a definition list in MultiMarkdown.
Markdown does not support definition lists. I have a [related proposal]
[] for definition lists that's identical to what MM does, except that
it uses ~ instead of :, both because it's easier to see as a bullet in
many fonts, and because it's not all that common.
[related proposal]:
http://justatheory.com/computers/markup/modest-markdown-proposal.html
Best,
David
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