[Pmwiki-users] Re: new link markup format? [[link] text]

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 01:20:12AM +0200, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> 
> It is a bit late, and changing the syntax this drastically might cause a
> fork in PmWiki...  something that'd mediated this would be to add the 
> possibility of placing a directive at the very first line on a page that 
> specifies the format of the page. In MoinMoin they have e.g.
> 	#FORMAT Wiki		-> wiki markup
> 	#FORMAT Plain		-> plain text
> [...]
> Anyway, I think it's a pretty good idea to allow the user to specify the 
> format of the page. Then it'd be straight forward to have pages with 
> different syntax.

Veto.  This effectively means that all authors on a wiki have to learn 
(or be aware of) at least two different markup formats on the same 
site, which definitely makes things inconvenient for newbie authors.

Pm