Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Tilde inconsistencies

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Matthew Palmer schrieb:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:28:49AM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> 
>>I don't see any inconsistency with the usage of "~" as
>>escape character, but I see the need to explain it better.
>>"~ " (tilde space) => <~> and not <space> is the only exception, which 
>>is not documented, but it is what the user expects.
>>
>>Ok to add this paragraph to TextFormattingRules?
> 
> 
> Is there no chance that the logic can be simplified somewhat?  There are 7
> separate tilde rules in that list -- basically, someone thinking "what are
> the tilde-handling rules in PHPWiki?" is going to fill their brain's L1
> cache.
> 
> What about "single tilde suppresses specialness, and under no circumstances
> gets printed, two tildes produces one visible tilde"?  In other words, "if
> you want a tilde, give two".

There is only one rule ("The tilde '~' is the Escape Character") and six 
examples.
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Reini Urban
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