[Wikipedia-l] Re: Parsing

Mon Jul 29 08:37:19 UTC 2002

On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 04:24:17PM +0100, tarquin wrote:
> 
> I would hesitate before deprecating <b> and <i> in wiki markup, but I 
> change those to the equivalent ' whenever I see them, and I don't think 
> they should be encouraged.

I would not hesitate here. If you have two notations for the same thing
people who want to write have to know them both because they are going to
encounter them and therefore have to know what they mean and if they are the
same or not. Having one notation is simpler for everybody.

-- Jan Hidders