[Pmwiki-users] Re: more --signature markup thoughts

Thomas -Balu- Walter list+pmwiki-users
Mon Feb 9 16:07:26 CST 2004


On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:40:40PM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> Well, after your excellent analysis I think that we're not really
> looking for a signature as much as an easy way to reference identities--
> while '--' has become a common wiki convention for indicating signatures,
> it probably has too many other meanings in text to be useful as markup.
> So, we need something else that can denote an identity, and it might as
> well be something that can be used in text as well as at the end of
> a line.

Or at the beginning ;) - I've seen many Wikis where discussions are done
"chat-style":

'''{{~Patrick Michaud}}:''' I don't think so :)

Not sure where I've seen that, but in some Wiki you could use a simple
pattern like ~~~ while editing to specify your user name - it was
replaced automatically while saving with e.g. {{~Patrick Michaud}} -

This would be a nice addition if we have author tracking and a decision
for the new signature-identity-part :)

     Balu



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