Tags with stars (★★★★★)

TaskPaper
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Hi, I want to implement a rating system for elements of a reading list in TaskPaper. While figuring out how I could implement such a rating, I wondered why e.g.

@★★☆☆☆
@★★★★★

is interpreted as text, not as a tag.

Thanks!

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One goal with TaskPaper is that it should be easily serializable into HTML… with tags represented as attributes names. So tags need to be valid HTML attribute names.

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Thanks. Do you have ideas what I could use instead/what others use instead?
Thanks!

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You can associate values with tags… so for example you can do @rating(1), @rating(2), etc. The nice thing about that is you can then search for just “@rating” and you’ll get all ratings… or you can search for “@rating = 2” to find only @ratings with associated value 2.

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