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.

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: Typing bracket characters by tilly
in thread Typing bracket characters by John M. Dlugosz

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