[Doc-SIG] Re: Substitution syntax

[Alan Jaffray]

I'd considered carets as well.  They seem uglier and more unnatural to me
than bars, but I'd be hard-pressed to explain why.

Maybe I perceive them as binary operators, and thus surrounding text with
them feels wrong, whereas bars feel more like generic separators or
delimiters?  Maybe the greater width makes them feel more intrusive?

(You know, examining my personal feelings, history, and relationships
with punctuation marks, on a public mailing list, feels very silly.)

Anyway, register one vote for bars over carets. :)

Alan


On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, David Goodger wrote:
> 
> The resulting example looks like this::
> 
>     The ^biohazard^ symbol...
> 
>     .. ^biohazard^ image:: biohazard.png
>        [height=20 width=20]
> 
> For comparison, here's the vertical bar syntax::
> 
>     The |biohazard| symbol...
> 
>     .. |biohazard| image:: biohazard.png
>        [height=20 width=20]
> 
> Hmm. I like the carets better. Any objections or dissenting opinions?