A Suggestion for Strikethrough Syntax

[Bill Eccles]

> Pandoc uses this syntax in its markdown extensions:

> 

> ~~text to be struck through~~

8< snip!

>

> Now that it's been in pandoc for a while, I'd be reluctant

> to change this syntax, but it now strikes me that something

> like the following would look better:

>

> apol(~l~)ogies

> syntactic(~al~)

> (~permutation-invariant~)

> 

> John


Actually, I like your double-tilde notation a lot better than my hyphen notation. It accomplishes much better what John set out to do, namely make something that looks like what it represents. And a tilde does look a lot like a scribble, which is a lot like what a strikethrough represents.

I don't much care for the parenthesis-laden notation, though. Doesn't quite look like what it represents as much as the double-tilde does.

I'd love to see Pandoc integrated with Movable Type. That'd be sweeeeeeet.

/Bill