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[social] Strike through is double tilde, as single with no space is often used in formulas and else where when used as approximately. Double tilde doesn’t interfere with that.
# [social] Other than every markdown guide? Some have single along with double, but give the warning using single as it interferes with regular tilde use.
# [social] Slack is where the single was use came from. Gruber didn’t include strikethrough in his initial markdown. Github created the strikethrough with double tilde.
# [social] The https://www.markdownguide.org/extended-syntax/ is one guide commonly used.
# [social] GitHub knew the problems of single tilde. The initial Slack use of markdown didn’t have strike through, I’m not sure when it was added.
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# [social] I thought Slack may have picked up from Multimarkdown, which is where Gruber’s initial markdown was extended for editing purposes not just quick writing. But, Multimarkdown is also double tilde, as part of the CriticMarkup syntax - https://fletcher.github.io/MultiMarkdown-4/criticmarkup.html
# [social] I found the Gruber post about him being peeved with Slack for fumbling the double tilde and making it single - https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/11/05/markdown-strikethrough-slack
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# [social] Pardon the snark last evening. Slack single tilde is a huge pain as I found out it added it when trying to get a budget proposal sorted out with colleagues and we were using ball park numbers and used the tilde a lot. One day all of our numbers in messages all had strikethroughs. That may have been around 2013 or 2014.
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# Loqi [[IndieWeb]] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IndieWeb&diff=1369751613&oldid=prev PanContinental863: Grammatical fixes.