Re (tilly) 1: Typing bracket characters

An alternate solution. In Why I like functional programming I discuss a way of handling markup which supports a variety of nice features that PerlMonks does not. There is a followup node for nate that was supposed to be incorporated into Everything. I don't know if it was though, and I don't think that PerlMonks has integrated it into its source.

If it were, though, it would allow people to just use \(char) to encode characters without remembering the bloody escape codes. (If you didn't want that feature, it could even be made a user configurable option.)

I would prefer that syntax to having PerlMonks create new HTML-like escapes.

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Re: Re (tilly) 1: Typing bracket characters by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Aug 09, 2001 at 20:23 UTC
I like the idea of easily escaping out special chars in a consistant way. How would you do formatting regions like bold and italics? The T_EX way, which is also consistant with Perl's concepts, that \ in front of a nonletter removes special meaning, but \ in front of a letter adds special meaning? —John	[reply]
Re (tilly) 3: Typing bracket characters by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 09, 2001 at 20:30 UTC
You can arrange to do it any way you want. You can also make large chunks of it user configurable. But personally I like the idea of winding up with a markup language which is mainly HTML with a few handy shortcuts. So I would suggest sticking with the usual tags.	[reply]