On 4/6/06, Omegatron <9ybf94w02(a)sneakemail.com> wrote:
You can still use <b>bold</b> and
<i>italic</i> tags if that's all you
mean, though I think that is rare.
Someone would probably change them to ''' or '' respectively,
assuming
ignorance on the part of the original editor. Hell, I would :)
Ah. It seems to me that emphasis is used more often
than simple
formatting, and I was changing ''quote marks'' to <i>italic
tags</i>
in the few cases where it's appropriate, based on the way I learned
when I first started editing. Then I was looking through the source
code one day, and realized they were both being rendered as italics,
so I was confused.
I'm glad you did, otherwise you and I could have been caught in an
infinite loop :)
So, if I understand correctly, a bunch of people were misusing
emphasis tags to mean italics, so someone changed the emphasis tags to
mean italics, and now people are misusing italics tags to mean
emphasis? :-)
I don't know about "misuse". We have a strong need for italics, and
''
is a very convenient way of getting them.
: Are we going to change the dictionary definition
colon markup to
render as CSS indentation now, since many people use it for
indentation?
:Indentation like this? Sure, that's what the colon in Wiki markup is
designed for, as far as I know. I don't think there's even a better
way of doing that?
Steve