Re: USAGE: :: and * (was: Re: North Wind and Sun in Obrenje)

 --- Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote: > daniel
andreasson writes:
>  > Christian Thalmann wrote:
>  >
>  > > ::puts on serious Bilbo Baggins face::
>  > > ::cheers::
>  >
>  > Interesting. Is it common usage to use :: instead
> of * these
>  > days? I know me and a couple of my friends do it,
> but I have
>  > no idea how widespread it is. I started using it
> because I
>  > thought * was really ugly and :: very pretty, but
> I haven't
>  > seen anyone else use it.
>  >
>
> Well, it depends on the font, IMO.  If you're using
> the kind of font I
> remember from, say, a ZX Spectrum or a BBC Micro,
> where the * has six
> rays and is the same height as the letters (which
> are quite possibly
> all caps), * looks quite nice.  On what I'm using
> now, it's five-rayed
> and superscript, and not terribly pleasant to look
> at.
>
> Let's see what the Jargon File has to say about
> it... hmm, nothing
> interesting about this particular kind of
> construction (or if there
> is, I can't find it).
>
> Using a lot of ::s makes everything look kind of
> like EBN notation,
> for what it's worth.
i've always used # for sounds ( a convention nicked
from ceefax ( ie bbc teletext ) subtitles where it's
used for song lyrics ) and i have a certain <raises
eyebrow> fetish </raises eyebrow> for marking stage
directions as html tags, complete with closing tags (
i do punctuate bac with virgules ( aka slashes ) after
all )

but that's just me. i like the double colon thing tho.
it does have some charm

bn

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