[Pmwiki-users] comment/vote on proposed changes

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 10:41:13AM +1200, John Rankin wrote:
> 
> > 1b.  Since backticks are used rarely, how about simply saying that
> > any CamelCase string preceded with a backtick is not a WikiWord and has the
> > backtick removed.  ...
> --
> So `PmWiki/`PmWiki would display as plain PmWiki/PmWiki 
> 
> And I would write Main/`HomePage and &`AElig;

Yes.

> Sounds good to me. Escaping a whole wikiword is more author-efficient 
> than escaping individual wiki letters, and easier to explain. Could we 
> do 1 for backward compatibility as well, please? It's not a big deal 
> for me to change things, so I'm relaxed if you prefer to omit it.

#1 would still work as a local customization and is completely
compatible with #1b, so rather than introduce #1 into PmWiki at all,
I'd just leave it as a local customization.

But there is still an open question as to whether or not this interpretation
of backticks should become part of standard PmWiki.  :-)

Pm