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Todd Lehman wrote in several messages ...
> Member pages on LUGNET will initially be text-based. • ...
> I'm lookin' for something simple, pretty, and intuitive -- something like
> this, or better:
> Hi, my name is Ed Boxer and I {really} love [Opera], [LEGO®], and [Boxing]!
[Todd], {I} must have (missed the start <of this>, but why)? _All_ you're
doing is (forcing) people l{i}ke me to write <[pre>-processors] to remove
the [garbage] that (you{'}<ve)> let (l)users add. *_And*_ some "text" will
become unprintable (<DOS: [dir ([filespec])*]>, _for instance_) without
_escape chars_. *I* [have to say] that *I* find things like (this) paragraph
pretty [unreadable]. And if you translated it to HTML is would not markedly
improve, I venture.
Note: This bit "(<DOS: [dir ([filespec])*]>, _for instance_)" without the font
chars is "(DOS: dir [filespec]*, for instance)".
I guess what I'm saying is that any format can be mangled, the trick is to
make it hard to mangle. Either by cutting features, or choice of control
chars. Since this is 'net, I suggest either allowing only a micro-HTML
subset (like P,B,I,U and perhaps UL), or using something a little odd as
an escape character to control formatting. Using different brackets is not,
IMO, that. If you're using escapes it's probably better to use optional
explanatory text: |bold|THIS IS SHOUTING| is the same as |b|SHOUTING|,
and make two escapes the escape character.
I personally tend to say that most users will be either geeks, or confused.
There's a fairly small subset of "other" who will be able to learn a simple
interface *and* will be prepared to RTFM in order to do so. Having played
on FIDONET and early HTML, I expect that subset to be drowned out by the
"confused" group asking FAQ.
Moz
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