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

[Christian Ridderström]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Robin Sheat wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:06:53AM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> >        {{--username}}
> My vote is for this (or perhaps: [[--username]]. It Shows it is a link 
> using the normal link notation, and it shows it is a signature, using -- 
> like is common.
> 

Balu wrote:
	Please keep in mind that this should not only be used for
	signatures, but everywhere a user name could be listed. E.g.:

	        as a signature -- [[~username]]
	        '''[[~username]]:''' chat-style message
	        [[~username]] said foobar

	     Balu
	PS: Wasn't --some text-- used for strikethrough somewhere?

and I think that's a good reason why [[~username]] (or {{~username}} is 
better.

In addition, we have the UNIX convention in paths that:

	~username

refers to the home directory of the user 'username'. And very often you'll 
find that your personal webpage are located at

	http://<partial-uri>/~username

Actually, the URI to my homepages is an example of this: 

	http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Finally, I think these examples also illustrate why it makes more sense to
use {{~username}} instead of {~username~} or other "symmetric" alternatives.

/Christian

PS. I just came up with a reason why {{~chr}} is better than [[~chr]]. If 
I want to make a link to my profile page, but have a different link text, 
I can do it like this (using the two alternatives):

      a) [[{{~christian ridderstr?m}} Christian's profile]]
      b) [[[[~christian ridderstr?m]] Christian's profile]]

where we can note that (a) is consistent with previous markup and (b) is 
not.

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