Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re: Wiki RFC Discussion

[Whit B. <wh...@tr...>]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 08:54:50AM +1200, Franck Martin wrote:
> 
> I suggest
> 
> **bold** This is used in e-mails a lot...
> 
> __underlining__  This one does not provide backward compatibility but 
> seems more logical

What seems logical will depend on where the user is coming from. Back when
manuscripts were prepared by typewriters, which didn't have italics of
course, the _ character when used to underline meant 'italics'. In normal
printed English there is no use of underlining; italics and bold are pretty
much it, aside from type size. 

And nobody wants to type more complexly in a wiki than they have to. So
what's the logic of not doing *bold*, _italics_, _*bold italics*_ and
perhaps __underlining__, ___underlined italics___, __*underlined bold*__,
___*underlined bold italics*___ - since that means the most typing for the
least-used effects.

Just my two cents. Hopefully many of the implementations will allow these to
be configured locally (with export options of course)....

Whit