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I don't like the ideas you mentioned, they go against my knowledge about designing good user interfaces (and text markup **is** in this case a user interface):
* make it monotonous -- if the users know how to do simple tasks, they should be able to guess how to make the more complicated ones. We followed this when designing image links, for example. Adding a colon when there is more than one line is completely arbitrary and cannot be guessed in any way.
* there should be one obvious way to do it -- if you want headings, then use headings
* be forgiving -- if the user does something incorrectly, don't punish him with errors, instead design the interface so that it's impossible to enter incorrect values and try to treat the values entered in the best possible way (but retain continuity, so that the users can see what's wrong and can guess how to correct it)
That being said, I really like the idea that popped up somewhere on this wiki, to go meta -- make the parser recognize patterns of simple markup, some kind of markup markup. In the case of definition lists, you'd just have a list with bold text at the beginning. This kind of meta-markup could be also applied in other places -- for example for table headings, but we already have markup for that, and it's consistent with heading markup. Then again, this technique could have some unexpected/unwanted effects sometimes, so we'd need to do some testing on live users.
-- RadomirDopieralski, 2007-Nov-14
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