(Nick Reinking <nick(a)twoevils.org>)g>):
Also, there are lots of line spanning constructs in wikitext. <pre>,
<nowiki>, <tr>, <td>, etc. Now, I _know_ that (with the exception of
<nowiki>) that these are HTML constructs (and not Wikitext constructs),
but to the average user, they are exactly the same. So, some things
span multiple lines, and some things don't. I think that is confusing.
HTML things span lines; most of those we can eventually eliminate.
We'll probably always be stuck with <nowiki>, but all of the others
you mention above are totally unnecessary. And there will be a much
better way to emphasize whole paragraphs using style elements.
Wiki syntax is an evolving language, but I'm determined to make it
a clean, well-specified, useful, powerful, and consistent one instead
of the current hodgepodge.
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