A Modest Definition List Proposal

[David E. Wheeler]

On Feb 19, 2009, at 9:42 AM, John Gruber wrote:


>> What I came up with is a single character change to the PHP  

>> Markdown Extra syntax. I just published a detailed explanation of  

>> my thoughts and reasoning for this on [my blog](http://justatheory.com/computers/markup/modest-markdown-proposal.html 

>> ).

>

> Unlike most syntax suggestions, your suggestion to use tilde as the  

> marker for definitions strikes me as genuinely Markdown-ish. I'm not  

> sure it's any better than colon, though.


Thanks John. Like I said, I prefer it to a colon because, in my mind  
at least, a colon goes at the end of things, not the beginning of  
things. The colon just looks weird to me, while the tilde does not.  
I'm speaking purely from a visual communication point of view about  
the plain-text representation here, of course.

But, like I said, it's dead easy to support both in the existing  
implementations.

Best,

David