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List:       markdown-discuss
Subject:    Re: A Suggestion for Strikethrough Syntax
From:       Bill Eccles <Bill.lists () Eccles ! net>
Date:       2009-11-09 23:55:35
Message-ID: 539EBA5E-6680-4DEA-B3C4-4D400A8E693B () Eccles ! net
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> Pandoc uses this syntax in its markdown extensions:
> 
> ~~text to be struck through~~
8< snip!
> 
> Now that it's been in pandoc for a while, I'd be reluctant
> to change this syntax, but it now strikes me that something
> like the following would look better:
> 
> apol(~l~)ogies
> syntactic(~al~)
> (~permutation-invariant~)
> 
> John

Actually, I like your double-tilde notation a lot better than my hyphen notation. It \
accomplishes much better what John set out to do, namely make something that looks \
like what it represents. And a tilde does look a lot like a scribble, which is a lot \
like what a strikethrough represents.

I don't much care for the parenthesis-laden notation, though. Doesn't quite look like \
what it represents as much as the double-tilde does.

I'd love to see Pandoc integrated with Movable Type. That'd be sweeeeeeet.

/Bill


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