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A star ({{{*}}}) is the most used symbol to emphasize text online. Double symbols are generally used in Creole to avoid accidentally parsing text not meant to be parsed. [[Bold and Italics Reasoning|Reasoning]] |
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**Reasoning:** A star ({{{*}}}) is the most used symbol to emphasize text online. Double symbols are generally used in Creole to avoid accidentally parsing text not meant to be parsed. [[Bold and Italics Reasoning|More details]] |
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A slash ({{{/}}}) looks like slanted italics, so it is intuitive and thus easier to remember. [[Bold and Italics Reasoning|Reasoning]] |
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**Reasoning:** A slash ({{{/}}}) looks like slanted italics, so it is intuitive and thus easier to remember. [[Bold and Italics Reasoning|More details]] |
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__About unordered lists and bold:__ a line starting with ** (including optional whitespace before and afterwards), immediately following any list element on a line above, will be treated as a nested unordered list element. Otherwise it will be treated as the beginning of bold text. Also note that bold and/or italics cannot span lines in a list. |
**About unordered lists and bold:** a line starting with {{{**}}} (including optional whitespace before and afterwards), immediately following any list element on a line above, will be treated as a nested unordered list element. Otherwise it will be treated as the beginning of bold text. Also note that bold and/or italics cannot span lines in a list. |
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A large majority of wiki engines use an asterisk ({{{*}}}) to denote bullet lists. The multiple asterisk approach for sublists was the first wiki syntax for sublists. Users do not need to count leading spaces like in markups where a sublist level is determined by the number of its leading spaces. [[Lists Reasoning|Reasoning]] |
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**Reasoning:** A large majority of wiki engines use an asterisk ({{{*}}}) to denote bullet lists. The multiple asterisk approach for sublists was the first wiki syntax for sublists. Users do not need to count leading spaces like in markups where a sublist level is determined by the number of its leading spaces. [[Lists Reasoning|More details]] |
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The number sign ({{{#}}}) is used for ordered lists in most wikis. [[Lists Reasoning|Reasoning]] |
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**Reasoning: ** The number sign ({{{#}}}) is used for ordered lists in most wikis. [[Lists Reasoning|More details]] |
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Using equal signs ({{{=}}}) is the most popular wiki header markup. Since there are more equal signs for smaller headers, subheaders will become more indented making it easier to get a visual overview from the markup alone. Closing equal signs are optional, making Creole more flexible since many wiki engines do not require them. [[Headings Reasoning|Reasoning]] |
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**Reasoning:** Using equal signs ({{{=}}}) is the most popular wiki header markup. Since there are more equal signs for smaller headers, subheaders will become more indented making it easier to get a visual overview from the markup alone. Closing equal signs are optional, making Creole more flexible since many wiki engines do not require them. [[Headings Reasoning|More details]] |
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Almost all wikis use square brackets ({{{[[]]}}}) to make links. Using double square brackets allows single square brackets to be used freely without worry of turning them into links. [[Links Reasoning|Reasoning]] |
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**Reasoning:** Almost all wikis use square brackets ({{{[[]]}}}) to make links. Using double square brackets allows single square brackets to be used freely without worry of turning them into links. [[Links Reasoning|More details]] |
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No markup tags should be necessary to start a new paragraph. [[Paragraphs and Line Breaks Reasoning|Reasoning]] |
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**Reasoning:** No markup tags should be necessary to start a new paragraph. [[Paragraphs and Line Breaks Reasoning|More details]] |
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__blog-style vs. wiki-style__\\ |
There was a [long discussion|Talk.Change Linebreak Markup Proposal] whether to use blog-style or wiki-style (legacy-style) line breaks. We decided to change the original blog-style line break recommendation (treat linebreaks as line breaks) from [Creole 0.3] to the wiki-style linebreaks recommendation. Wikis __must__ support forced line break syntax {{{ \\ }}}. |
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We encourage engine developers that have already implemented the Creole 0.3 style (blog-style) line breaks not to throw away their implementation, but to add an option so that administrators can choose in which mode to run their installation. This way we hope to gain more experience with blog-style line breaks. In a blog-style line break mode, the forced line break syntax must be supported, so that line breaks will properly migrate when people copy text from a wiki with forced line break characters. [[Paragraphs and Line Breaks Reasoning|Reasoning]] |
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**Reasoning: ** __blog-style vs. wiki-style__\\ |
There was a [long discussion|Talk.Change Linebreak Markup Proposal] whether to use blog-style or wiki-style (legacy-style) line breaks. We decided to change the original blog-style line break recommendation (treat linebreaks as line breaks) from [Creole 0.3] to the wiki-style linebreaks recommendation. Wikis __must__ support forced line break syntax {{{ \\ }}}. |
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We encourage engine developers that have already implemented the Creole 0.3 style (blog-style) line breaks not to throw away their implementation, but to add an option so that administrators can choose in which mode to run their installation. This way we hope to gain more experience with blog-style line breaks. In a blog-style line break mode, the forced line break syntax must be supported, so that line breaks will properly migrate when people copy text from a wiki with forced line break characters. [[Paragraphs and Line Breaks Reasoning|More details]] |
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There must be a way for users to enter text which will not be formatted by the wiki engine. Triple curly brackets ({{{{{{~}}}}}}) were chosen due to their visibility and unlikeliness to be in the "code" itself. [[Preformatted and Nowiki Reasoning|Reasoning]] |
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**Reasoning: ** There must be a way for users to enter text which will not be formatted by the wiki engine. Triple curly brackets ({{{{{{~}}}}}}) were chosen due to their visibility and unlikeliness to be in the "code" itself. [[Preformatted and Nowiki Reasoning|More details]] |
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All non-WYSIWYG wikis use hyphens ({{{----}}}) to denote horizontal rules. Most wikis require four. [[Horizontal Rule Reasoning|Reasoning]] |
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**Reasoning:** All non-WYSIWYG wikis use hyphens ({{{----}}}) to denote horizontal rules. Most wikis require four. [[Horizontal Rule Reasoning|More details]] |
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The most common image markup was double curly brackets ({{{ {{}} }}}) which will then have the same internal structure as links for consistency. [[Images Reasoning|Reasoning]] |
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**Reasoning:** The most common image markup was double curly brackets ({{{ {{}} }}}) which will then have the same internal structure as links for consistency. [[Images Reasoning|More details]] |
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Most wikis use single or double pipes to separate table cells. Single pipes ({{{|}}}) allow better use of space and are faster to type than double pipes since pipes are not usually needed in table cells. [[Tables Reasoning|Reasoning]] |
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**Reasoning:** Most wikis use single or double pipes to separate table cells. Single pipes ({{{|}}}) allow better use of space and are faster to type than double pipes since pipes are not usually needed in table cells. [[Tables Reasoning|More details]] |
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This is the only new markup introduced in Creole. Few wikis use angle brackets ({{{<<>>}}}) for markup and it is easy to type on most international keyboards. This was mainly developed due to MediaWiki's extensive use of special characters making it practically impossible to implement Mixed Creole mode. [[Placeholder Reasoning|Reasoning]] |
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**Reasoning:** This is the only new markup introduced in Creole. Few wikis use angle brackets ({{{<<>>}}}) for markup and it is easy to type on most international keyboards. This was mainly developed due to MediaWiki's extensive use of special characters making it practically impossible to implement Mixed Creole mode. [[Placeholder Reasoning|More details]] |