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I tried to extend Creole syntax and implement also [[Email-style emphasis]].
In this case, emphasis begins and ends on a single character: "/", "*" or "_".
I've not found a way to solve the conflict with bullets at line start. A space would solve the problem completely.
Otherwise, all engines using this style (which is very handy!) would face the same problem.
Btw, I don't think Creole should drop bullet lists, even if it adopts hyphen lists.
They're simply too widespread and natural.
-- [[Michele Tomaiuolo]], 2007-03-02
May I know what is exactly the problem with this proposal? Incompatibility with MediaWiki? Requirement to convert the wikipedia page database if this is accepted and wikipedia adopts Creole?
-- [[Radomir Dopieralski]], 2007-Mar-22
No real problem. Converting the wikipedia database will be required anyway!
But if we accept spaces //before// bullets, for the sake of consistency, we should
accept them before leading pipe in tables and before leading equal in titles,
not mentionning other kinds of lists and indenting. Forbidding spaces after
single bullets seems gratuitous, but I don't mind much.
But please don't choose both hyphens and stars for unnumbered lists.
-- [[YvesPiguet]], 2007-Mar-22
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I believe this discussion went astray, focussing on ambiguity, parser, etc. issues. I agree that machines should work harder, but this leads me to the opposite conclusion. The important issue to me are intuitiveness to writers and readability in plain text mode!
The only argument relevant to this is Chucks wikipedia study. I looked myself (and have no issues with numbers). but I personally feel that the no-blank style looks like computer programming done by wikipedia experts, and the bullet+blank style nicely sticks out and is readable and intuitive. Please try yourself! I read Radomir's [[Require Space After Bullet Proposal|original proposal]] as this being a major argument in favor or requiring the blank, not just the question of solving ambiguity issues.
I consider the proposal to be very valid and would like to see it accepted or discussion reopened.
Here a quote from what I wrote on [[Talk.Creole 0.6]]: "I personally find bullet-plus-blank much more intuitive and readable markup sequence. It would make the Creole specs simpler, not requiring us to explain two alternative ways of list markup! [...] To me giving both options is two different rules, perhaps because unlike most whitespace rules in Creole and in fact all Wikis I know, this **does not**, correspond to html/xml whitespace normalization. (I consider this an argument for being "intuitive" to a lot of readers, not a technical argument). The difference between "- X" and "-X", or "# X" and "#X" seems to be intuitively significant. Do we really have to support both alternative markup styles?"
-- [[Gregor Hagedorn]], 2007-04-04
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48 26-Sep-2007 09:43 34.86 kB ChuckSmith to previous restore
47 26-Sep-2007 01:40 34.872 kB 203.69.39.251 to previous | to last
46 04-Apr-2007 22:52 34.86 kB Gregor Hagedorn to previous | to last Please reopen discussion, focussing on user needs rather than programmer needs
45 22-Mar-2007 16:17 33.222 kB YvesPiguet to previous | to last Nothing wrong
44 22-Mar-2007 15:32 32.74 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last what is exactly wrong?
43 02-Mar-2007 00:47 32.502 kB MicheleTomaiuolo to previous | to last Email-style emphasis
42 01-Mar-2007 12:35 31.96 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last clarity
41 01-Mar-2007 12:01 30.065 kB Janne Jalkanen to previous | to last
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