Collaboration made simple with bracket notation

[chombee]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 23:41 -0800, david parsons wrote:

>     I'm fairly late to the game (and I wrote a C markdown before I

>     started reading this list, so I'm not exactly in the mainstream) but

>     the syntax described on humanized seems incredibly noisy.  Wouldn't

>     the editorial corrections markup fit better as a footnote?

> 

>     I'd think that something like [text](ed: change -- why), like so:

> 

> 	 They called to say that [they're](ed: was `their` -- be

> 	 careful with "their" and "they're") coming over in

> 	 [a](ed: was `an` -- `an` is only before a vowel) quarter-hour.

> 

>     might be a little more readable than the thicket of []'s that

>     Mr. Raskin proposed.


I like this variation:

They called to say that the{-ir}{+y're}{be careful with "their" and
"they're"} coming over in a{-n}{`an` is only before a vowel}
quarter-hour.

Also for author names and dates: {@Ed 2008-02-04}