[pmwiki-users] historical question

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:06:40PM -0400, Radu wrote:
> Does anyone remember what led to pmwiki adopting the '''bold''' and family 
> over the mime-like *bold* and family? Was it some sort of markup conflict, 
> like with the unordered lists and stuff?
> 
> And then why use * for bullets rather than - (which is easier to type at 
> least on the US keyboard, and I keep seeing (and using) in text-only lists)

Pm was probably just following the precedent set by other wikis at the
time.

-Scott
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