Collaboration made simple with bracket notation

[david parsons]

> On Jan 21, 2008, at 8:49 AM, tchomby wrote:

> 

> > What do people think of this?

> >



> > http://www.humanized.com/weblog/2006/06/30/collaboration_made_simple_with_bracket_notation/

On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:31:04AM -0500, Fletcher T. Penney wrote:

> It's an interesting idea - as mentioned in the comments the brackets  

> would need to be changed to something else that doesn't collide with  

> current (or future) Markdown syntax, but I like the concept.


    I'm fairly late to the game (and I wrote a C markdown before I
    started reading this list, so I'm not exactly in the mainstream) but
    the syntax described on humanized seems incredibly noisy.  Wouldn't
    the editorial corrections markup fit better as a footnote?

    I'd think that something like [text](ed: change -- why), like so:

	 They called to say that [they're](ed: was `their` -- be
	 careful with "their" and "they're") coming over in
	 [a](ed: was `an` -- `an` is only before a vowel) quarter-hour.

    might be a little more readable than the thicket of []'s that
    Mr. Raskin proposed.


    -david parsons