Tag consistancy
Taken individually the wiki parsing tags make sense, but looked at as a whole in the eyes of a novice, they are a bit confusing.
Some are symetrical like -=text=-
other are more like html like ~n p~text~/n p~
some use one character like [link]
some use two characters like __text__
some use three like ===text===
and some are asymetrical like !!text
most work anywhere, but some only work if they start a new line.
Yet others are stand-alone like ---
then there is ~~Green:text~~
To me __ would make more sense for underline than bold. Regardless, you quickly run out of character pairs that would not appear in normal text, and which would make sense for a tag.
I do not suppose that there would be a use for a generalized module to change the parsing rules, but I would like to be able to plug in a modified set.
Personally, I prefer the HTML style, willing to type more characters to gain consistancy and more accurate parsing. I think I would go with the plugin grammer and have something like {UL} {/UL}.
I don't do php, but if someone could point out the appropriate files, maybe I could hack through them.
...don
;){kind=link}
;){kind=link}