On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 02:10:12PM +0200, Tels wrote:
Moin,
On Saturday 24 June 2006 13:33, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:16:11AM +0100, Timwi
wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
Silly question, but is this really only useful
for poems? Would it
not be useful at en.wp for other stuff too? I'll have to have a
play and see what else it could be good for...
Please don't use it for something else, even if it seems somewhat
useful for another purpose. It is _designed_ for poems, and it is
supposed to mark up only poems. If you find another use, a new tag
can be introduced that behaves in a very similar way.
Why? That seems needlessly complex. If one has need for the same
functionality for multiple purposes, it doesn't strike me as a net win
to have eight different syntaxes to do the same thing. Is there some
specific reason that it should be divided by intent rather than
purpose, thusly?
Maybe the name of the tag (<poem>) is a big hint. You don't mark bold text
with <i style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;">bold</i>,
right? :)
Considering that the reason this question came up was someone else's
question about whether it should be renamed to something other than
"poem", I don't think that statement was very helpful. Thanks for
playing, though. You'll get a consolation prize at the door.
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"Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to
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