While text tags are very versatile and often self-documenting solution, there are several reasons to avoid them in
Creole.
- They are meaningful only in one language, and meaningless or even misleading in others, causing some InternationalizationConcerns.
- They usually require more characters, therefore take up more space (they are still FastToType).
- They make text hard to read, by distracting attention, which makes it hardly ReadableMarkup.
- They can make the markup less EasyToLearn and EasyToTeach, especially when there are multiple words possible to describe given tag.