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Re: markup syntax for member pages
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:41:54 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
> LOL!!!

We aim to amuse.

> OK, I shouldn't've crossposted to .off-topic.geek without giving a link

Hmm. Makes a little more sense now.


> "Confused" people really won't need to use anything other than just plain
> paragraph-based text.  For them, boldface and italics will be an advanced
> feature.


The trouble is that they will still ask how the "elite" people get their
special powers to do formatting, and whine when their malformed efforts
don't work. That's what I meant by drowning out the ones who can learn.

But regardless, please don't mix meta types. Either use positional notation,
or tags, but don't have both. The idea of a tag language with COBOL style
comments is not a happy one in my mind.

I'm still in favour of a subset of the basic HTML tags. They're easy to
parse, easy to restrict, and <B>easy to learn</B>. Oh, and easy to read.

Moz



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  Re: markup syntax for member pages
 
(...) I don't quite grok. By COBOL-style comments do you mean something in column 1 affecting the rest of the line? And if so, why do you feel it is bad to mix that with paired (open/close) constructs? Take C++ for example -- it offers two types of (...) (27 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: markup syntax for member pages
 
(...) LOL!!! OK, I shouldn't've crossposted to .off-topic.geek without giving a link (with that weird URL thing I do) to the top-level node in the thread, explaining what this was all about. Here's that: (URL) one clean way to do lines like your (...) (27 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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