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In English square brackets have a legitimate and common use when abbreviating quotes. They are also used in [[diplomatic text]] which is the closest thing to wiki that ever existed prior to the 90s. Single square brackets must be left alone for these purposes, though double and triple of course do mean something.
In English [[square bracket]]s have a legitimate and common use when abbreviating quotes. They are also used in [[diplomatic text]] which is the closest thing to wiki that ever existed prior to the 90s. Single square brackets must be left alone for these purposes, though double and triple of course do mean something.
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-- RadomirDopieralski, 2007-02-05
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Of course it's "already pretty much how I describe it" because that way is right. ;-) It's not a problem, as long as [[parenthesis]] isn't in use, to extend Creole slightly to fuse with tikiwiki in the way I suggested above.
However, looking at the recent changes, it's only been a few days since the "reasoning" was made visible to the whole world in proper wiki form. So if "Creole's markup is already pretty much decided" including the bold/italic mess, so quickly after its initial proposal is made available for comment, then I hold out no hope of its universal adoption. Of all conventions those are clearly the most wrong, and least compatible with the way most wiki data is now. They need to be fixed.
Every punctuation mark deserves its own page but of course the link should be to the singular [[square bracket]]. It's not shallow to describe all the uses of a square bracket in legitimate English usage, because this will help to convince a person convinced that {{{ [this is a link] }}} that it absolutely cannot be one. If you are really worried about that, make {{{[[diplomatic text]]}}} a redirect to the {{{[[square bracket]]}}} page and explain it all at once. Keeping separate redirects, I hope you know, is the best way to differentiate reasons to link to one page...
-- Anonymous, 2007-02-05
You can summarise the English typography patterns on a single page easily. It's really not that much text if written well. It's usually only about 1/10 of most style guides. Other people can include similar pages for other languages too. World is a little bigger than just Canada, after all.
All the discussion is open and publicly available since the very beginning, I've left you some links on [[Talk.RadomirDopieralski]]. The {{{*Reasoning}}} pages are just summaries of the most relevants points of these discussions, for those who are not interested in working on Creole, but would like to know. I guess they should include links to the actual discussions too.
See [[Meatball:ShallowPage]] to see what I meant by "shallow".
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9 05-Feb-2007 21:47 5.29 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous summaries are new, discussions are old
8 05-Feb-2007 19:48 4.501 kB 142.177.76.130 to previous | to last each punctuation mark needs its own page; bold/italic mess is worst problem
7 05-Feb-2007 18:16 3.183 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last answer
6 05-Feb-2007 17:50 2.281 kB 142.177.76.130 to previous | to last do the various brackets have any clear rationale for use of each?
5 05-Feb-2007 13:29 1.038 kB YvesPiguet to previous | to last Moved colon and parenthesis
4 05-Feb-2007 10:24 0.9 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last two separate lists
3 02-Feb-2007 19:49 0.715 kB YvesPiguet to previous | to last Agree to merge lists
2 02-Feb-2007 19:34 0.652 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last maybe merge the two lists?
1 02-Feb-2007 19:24 0.343 kB YvesPiguet to last Clarification needed
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