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This is very bad reasoning that misses all the important points about the problem and seems to assume that all the problems that will ever exist in wiki markup or extensions to it are known now. It's nabbing symbols left and right to overload for trivial purposes when there are dead serious purposes like use in URLs that a user has to learn in order to use the net at all. It's defying perfectly good conventions that there's no reason at all to defy, and which can be combined in very useful ways.
There's a strong argument to [[MakeTheMachineWorkHarder]] and avoid specifying the exact type of emphasis used, falling back to specifying things like "this is a quote", and "this is an alternate title" rather than "this is bold" or italic.
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In most well-run wikis, typefaces have clear meaning. In Wikipedia articles for instance you can expect meta or editors notes in italics, alternate titles in bold, and so on. When converting these it would be better to figure out their semantics.
Even if that's not possible, [[BoldAndItalicsReasoning]] doesn't hold up - it misses all the important points about the problem and seems to assume that all the problems that will ever exist in wiki markup or extensions to it are known now. It's nabbing symbols left and right to overload for trivial purposes when there are dead serious purposes like use in URLs that a user has to learn in order to use the net at all. It's defying perfectly good conventions that there's no reason at all to defy, and which can be combined in very useful ways.
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Using one symbol for all font/style choice is very wise, and it works well enough in mediawiki.
Using one symbol (the [[single quote]]) for the font/style choice works well enough in mediawiki and it avoids overloading symbols. There's no reason not to support the mediawiki and tikiwiki syntax in parallel for those who object very strongly to the use of [[slash]] and [[star]] to specify types of emphasis, and don't want this damage in their data.
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I have not time to write a rhetorical argument in support of the above. The previous one makes it clear (as do the discussions on Meatball and elsewhere) that / is a poor choice for italics. I won't support it in the parser I am currently working on.
Forgot to mention: irc://freenode.net/socialtext and irc://freenode.net/mediawiki present a not-atypical "collision". ({{{irc://freenode.net/socialtext and irc://freenode.net/mediawiki}}})
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Re: slash precedence -- I've seen it since 1995 (when I got online) on the web, on usenet, on irc, and in personal communications. In plain text it reminds one of italics, and as those are commonly used for emphasis, it's appropriate syntactually. Semantically, it is also used for article titles and similar.
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Though it breaks the doubled-operator convention, why not {{{*emphasis (aka italics)*}}} and {{{**strong emphasis (aka bold)**}}}?
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Well, I've been online since 1985 and I've never seen it in use for the above. <shrug> But did you notice the use of {{{//}}} causes a collision //within// the Creole 1.0 specification for linking urls? http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/BoldAndItalicsReasoning states the double slash does not collide with any wiki, yet it collides with the use of free url links. In short, it collides with *every* wiki.
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4 05-Feb-2007 17:39 3.499 kB 142.177.76.130 to previous | to last slashes denote hierarchy and specialization in URLs, thus everywhere
3 05-Feb-2007 17:35 3.205 kB 142.177.76.130 to previous | to last deal with underline and alternate titles before setting this in stone
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1 05-Feb-2007 17:20 2.648 kB 142.177.76.130 to last utter nonsense; __title__ '''bold''' ''italic'' work perfectly and combine well
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