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Thanks for the reference! I've had a look at a lot of examples and it seems great, but I really dislike the idea of homodirectional delimiters because I fear i
by johnmorrison 7y ago
Thanks for the reference!
I've had a look at a lot of examples and it seems great, but I really dislike the idea of homodirectional delimiters because I fear it unnecessarily complicates formatting and introduces a pointless risk of collision.
That's why I want to only use two kinds of delimiter:
- EOL, unless content is continued on the same indentation immediately without a gap, defines a block separation
- Strictly heterodirectional delimiters, e.g. () [] {} <>, define inline blocks and nested blocks, or can provide a bypass of the first rule
I feel that this design decision will save a lot of time, even though
*italics*
is technically less characters than
{i italics}
(however, in Polymath you can also just use a newline and save a character:)
i italics
- Per_Bothner 7y agoA not-to-ignore advantage of *italics* besides brevity is it makes for easier-to-read "source". That is one of the benefits of AsciiDoc (and Markdown): The source is both easy to read and easy to write, at least for simple text paragraphs. In contrast {i italics} is not very readable.