A Modest Definition List Proposal

[John Gruber]

On 18 Feb 2009, at 1:44 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:


> What I came up with is a single character change to the PHP Markdown  

> Extra syntax. I just published a detailed explanation of my thoughts  

> and reasoning for this on [my blog](http://justatheory.com/computers/markup/modest-markdown-proposal.html 

> ).


Unlike most syntax suggestions, your suggestion to use tilde as the  
marker for definitions strikes me as genuinely Markdown-ish. I'm not  
sure it's any better than colon, though.

-J.G.