Alex Schroeder

I started Emacs Wiki, I run Community Wiki, I maintain Oddmuse, and I have a blog.

When I implemented the Oddmuse extension for Creole Markup, I added notes to all the talk pages where I felt the next revision of the recommendation should be more precise.

My position statement on Creole 0.1:

• **bold** and //italics// -- supported, including nesting and spanning lines but not paragraphs.
• - unordered lists -- supported, but requiring a space after the - should part of the recommendation to reduce collisions with signatures, en-dashes, and negative numbers.
• * unordered lists -- supported, but requiring a space after the * should part of the recommendation to reduce collisions with bold, since nested list items will start with **.
• # ordered lists -- supported, but requiring a space after the # should part of the recommendation for consistency with the unordered list markup.
• Nested lists are usually not needed except for table of contents and other sort of dynamically assembled hierarchical data; repeating the list item character is not intuitive, using whitespace intuitive. Mixed nested lists add to the difficulties. Maybe both should be supported, if nested lists are to be supported at all, but this requires more discussion. Mixed nested lists
• List items can span lines but not paragraphs. Empty lines between list items is are allowed.
• == headings -- supported, but the recommendation should only require three different different heading levels. More levels should be optional.
• [[links]] -- supported.
• {{image}} -- supported, but the recommendation should offer a way to add alternative text.
• Paragraphs, linebreaks -- supported
• ~{{{Preformatted & unprocessed}}} -- supported as follows: If the opening triple braces start on the first column, open a pre block. It is closed by closing triple braces starting on the first column. Any other opening triple braces open a code element. They are closed by tripple braces.
• ---- -- horizontal rule is supported.
• <<x>> -- not supported.