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Old 11-03-2007, 08:07 PM   #44
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tompe said:
> Number of empty lines and space as significant markup seems like a bad idea.

as for the number of empty lines, the zml-authoring-tool does the counting for you,
displaying headers appropriately, so in practice, it actually works out pretty well...

the same with elements that depend upon spaces. plus, as one person pointed out,
python's dependence upon spaces hasn't seemed to have many deleterious effects...
i also have the benefit of the experience other light-markup systems have gained...
markdown depends even more on spaces than z.m.l., and nobody complains about it.


> Also I do not see how to markup quotes inside quotes,
> e.g: "Allan's word 'green' is blue".

i'm not sure i understand you. you'd do it just like you did it in your example...

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