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Hi Radomir,
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I followed your use cases links above, but only found one page that used hyphens for dialog, and those had spaces in front of the hyphens anyway, so they wouldn't be affected by our hyphenated lists. The one case I found is here: [[http://eversea.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Nancy]]. Funny that I couldn't find many considering that it's "not an edge case". Perhaps in Polish dialog is indicated by hyphens whereas it is not in other languages. I've personally never remember seeing this in the fiction I've read.
As for indenting lists, we've already ruled that out due to InvisibleMarkup, so I will not even address that.
As for putting spaces after the asterisk, you have even seen in your own research that 25% of users do not put a space after the asterisk of a list, so I also don't see how this could be a solution.
Which of the following is clearer?
{{{
* **Older programming languages**
** **Prolog:** for AI
** **Cobol:** for business
* **Modern programming languages**
** **Java** popular cross-platform solution
** **Python** popular for text processing
** **Ruby** invented in Japan
}}}
{{{
- **Older programming languages**
-- **Prolog:** for AI
-- **Cobol:** for business
- **Modern programming languages**
-- **Java** popular cross-platform solution
-- **Python** popular for text processing
-- **Ruby** invented in Japan
}}}
As far as beauty, I think the second example definitely is more beautiful, but people could argue forever on which markup is aesthetically more beautiful. That's mostly a matter of taste. I know the head developer of MoinMoin finds Creole distasteful because it is ugly, but I personally find MoinMoin's syntax very ugly. Also, when people start using wikis, I have often seen that they try to use hyphens for lists instead of asterisks.
I would, however, really like to hear other developer's opinions on this issue rather than just us three. What are others' opinions?
-- [[ChuckSmith]], 2007-Feb-27
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39 26-Sep-2007 01:03 32.766 kB 219.138.204.162 to previous | to last
38 21-Apr-2007 15:24 32.753 kB ChristophSauer to previous | to last refactoring: moved annunc from talk to here
37 17-Apr-2007 11:02 31.894 kB YvesPiguet to previous | to last BBEdit and TextWrangler do hard wrap
36 14-Apr-2007 10:42 31.148 kB ChristophSauer to previous | to last added link to linebreak argument on lists on relevant discussion
35 03-Apr-2007 12:09 30.974 kB 62.12.165.34 to previous | to last No nested lists.
34 22-Mar-2007 16:19 30.741 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last reply to Yves about ##
33 22-Mar-2007 12:30 30.352 kB YvesPiguet to previous | to last List indenting
32 22-Mar-2007 12:03 29.945 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last people commonly indent lists
31 22-Mar-2007 10:12 29.552 kB YvesPiguet to previous | to last Clarification
30 22-Mar-2007 09:33 29.004 kB MicheleTomaiuolo to previous | to last emphasis on whole par
29 21-Mar-2007 20:22 28.809 kB YvesPiguet to previous | to last What about sharp?
28 21-Mar-2007 18:26 27.975 kB ChristophSauer to previous | to last keep
27 21-Mar-2007 18:24 27.894 kB ChristophSauer to previous | to last keep
26 21-Mar-2007 18:24 27.89 kB ChristophSauer to previous | to last keep
25 21-Mar-2007 16:51 26.853 kB YvesPiguet to previous | to last Reject
24 08-Mar-2007 17:21 26.285 kB YvesPiguet to previous | to last Thanks
23 08-Mar-2007 17:16 26.239 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last experiments
22 08-Mar-2007 16:47 25.568 kB YvesPiguet to previous | to last Experiment feedback?
21 08-Mar-2007 16:19 25.284 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last single hyphens only
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