[pmwiki-users] historical question
Joachim Durchholz
jo at durchholz.org
Fri Apr 29 08:12:32 CDT 2005
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:29:29PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
>
>>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.
>
> No, it's a fair bit more than that. The problem is that single asterisks
> often show up in text where they aren't meant to mean "bold". For example,
> someone entering a mathematical formula would be more than a little
> surprised when a = b*c + d*e gets rendered as "a = b<b>c + d</b>e".
> And there are other conflicts with single asterisks, which is why
> I just avoided it entirely. (Similar comments hold for trying to
> do _underline_ text or /italic/.)
Mozilla does these markups just fine :-)
The rule seems to be: a non-alphabetic character to the left and an
alphabetic one to the right starts the markup, and the reverse for
end-of-markup.
This seems to work well in emails - with the exception of
/absolute/directory/names/.
Are there any PmWiki markups that would conflict with *...*, _..._, and
/.../?
Regards,
Jo
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