[Pmwiki-users] Re: Re: more --signature markup thoughts

[Christian Ridderström]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:40:40PM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > That leaves me with the following choices:
> > 
> > in text:                         as a signature:
> >   1.  ~Patrick Michaud~            -- ~Patrick Michaud~
> >   2.  ~~Patrick Michaud~~          -- ~~Patrick Michaud~~
> >   3.  [[~Patrick Michaud]]         -- [[~Patrick Michaud]]
> >   4.  {{~Patrick Michaud}}         -- {{~Patrick Michaud}}
> >   5.  ~{{Patrick Michaud}}         -- ~{{Patrick Michaud}}
> >   6.  ~PatrickMichaud              -- ~PatrickMichaud
> > 
> > Of these my preference thus far is #4, as it helps to reinforce the
> > idea that identities are free link text.  I've implemented this one on
> > the beta site if anyone wants to try it out.  But the others are 
> > reasonable too.
> 
> Given that we're really just talking about a short-hand way to say
> Profiles/{{signature}}, I like #5 best.

I prefer #4 over #5 simply because I feel less worried about false
positives And we already expect things witin {{...}} to become links, but
we aren't expecting a single character in front to completely change this
behaviour.

Of course, writing that, I realize that putting '/' or a '.' can change
the interpretation drastically (e.g. Group/{{bla bla}}). OTOH, I've never
quite understood the reason for putting the group outside.

Scott, could you give a reason for why you'd prefer #5?

/Christian

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Christian Ridderstr?m                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr