A Modest Definition List Proposal

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

Yeah, Markdown users in the hard sciences would trigger that
constantly. best, Joe

On 2/18/09, Yuri Takhteyev <qaramazov at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Right. I actually think that using ~ as a range operator (essentially) is

>> fairly rare outside of electronic circles, at least in US English.

>

> In other words, by at least 5% of the world population. :)

>

> But even just looking at the US English, ~ is often used for

> approximation, for the home directory, for equivalence, etc. So,

> things like "The cost is ~ $3", "cd to ~ before doing this", "The N

> needs a ~ over it", "If we assume x ~ y, then" will all suddenly

> become definition lists?

>

>> Term 1 o Definition a blah blah blah blah blah

>> Term 2 o Definition b foo bar baz

>> Term 3 o Definition c even more blah blah blah

>

> É. O unico problema é o "o" do Portugues, que é um artigo nessa linguagem.

>

> (Our friend "o" is a _word_ in some languages.)

>

> - yuri

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
ACCURATE Postdoctoral Research Associate
UC Berkeley School of Information
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
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