On 13/09/06, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikitech(a)gmail.com> wrote:
They would have to balance *double* asterisks only.
The assumption is
that these will virtually never occur except when intended to be
markup. Since bolding markup is normally used in matched pairs,
there's not really any problem except if someone habitually fails to
close their bold markup, and unclosed bold markup probably shouldn't
render as bold altogether (to force people to match asterisks *all*
the time so they don't get confused when it doesn't work at the
beginning of a line).
This brings to mind a co-worker's annoyance with MoinMoin's table
syntax - where if you don't put everything all on one ridiculously
long line, it doesn't work (or so he says). Will you be required to
put everything on one ridiculously long line if you want to bold a
paragraph?
- d.