Support for <(sub|sup)> (Was: [this] as a synonym for [this][])
Jelks Cabaniss
jelks at jelks.nu
Mon Apr 4 19:07:59 EDT 2005
David P Henderson wrote:
> Ba^2+^ + OH^-^
> ...
>
> I realize that the first form is used for emphasis, but the second
> form for <sup> would work and is fairly clear in its meaning.
... and is very Markdown-like. I like it.
(And if you had two `^` characters in the same block that you wanted
literally, you could backslash escape them...)
Though where does that leave `<sub>`, not to mention a possible sharing of a
common syntax form between other common inlines -- *if* that's implemented?
OTOH, it could be a synonym/alias/alternate the same way we now have two
ways of expressing implicit links:
Ba^2+^ + OH^-^
would be equivalent to
Ba[^2+^] + OH[^-^]
(though your shorthand for subscripts wouldn't be possible because, as you
pointed out, the underscore is already taken for emphasis.)
/Jelks
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