Re: DW vs LJ HTML, one of the reasons I post on DW and cross-post to LJ is that I always forget the HTML LJ structure. It's not unusual for me to preview an LJ entry three or four times to fix my cuts, userIDs, etc -- I always get them wrong, because the 'rules' are not the same for different tags. DW, on the other hand, is much more intuitive. My memory is an awful thing, and when I stop using something for a week or more, I have to relearn it again. Some things stick; for example, strong, small, and user name are easier for me to remember than b, li, q -- because they are self explicative. Which is more obvious in DW than in LJ.
That being said, I would like to see a shortcut for DW IDs but I'm not sure @ should be used. It might be because, in Spanish, @ has been used the last few years as a way to encompass the male and female genders in one single word without repeating it (because it looks like a mix of 'o' and 'a') -- for example, 'niñ@s' instead of 'niñas y niños' (girls and boys), or 'Mexican@s' instead of 'Mexicanas y Mexicanos' (Mexican women and Mexican men). Gender differentiation in words is more frequent in Spanish than in English, so I understand this particular use of the symbol is not one that will be seen much in most journals. Still, I wanted to share this.
Maybe a combination of symbols and words, like other have suggested? But a more intuitive one, like jerico_cacaw and [Unknown site tag]jerico_cacaw.
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Re: DW vs LJ HTML, one of the reasons I post on DW and cross-post to LJ is that I always forget the HTML LJ structure. It's not unusual for me to preview an LJ entry three or four times to fix my cuts, userIDs, etc -- I always get them wrong, because the 'rules' are not the same for different tags. DW, on the other hand, is much more intuitive. My memory is an awful thing, and when I stop using something for a week or more, I have to relearn it again. Some things stick; for example, strong, small, and user name are easier for me to remember than b, li, q -- because they are self explicative. Which is more obvious in DW than in LJ.
That being said, I would like to see a shortcut for DW IDs but I'm not sure @ should be used. It might be because, in Spanish, @ has been used the last few years as a way to encompass the male and female genders in one single word without repeating it (because it looks like a mix of 'o' and 'a') -- for example, 'niñ@s' instead of 'niñas y niños' (girls and boys), or 'Mexican@s' instead of 'Mexicanas y Mexicanos' (Mexican women and Mexican men). Gender differentiation in words is more frequent in Spanish than in English, so I understand this particular use of the symbol is not one that will be seen much in most journals. Still, I wanted to share this.
Maybe a combination of symbols and words, like other have suggested? But a more intuitive one, like jerico_cacaw and [Unknown site tag]jerico_cacaw.