On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, David Gerard wrote:
Ashar Voultoiz (hashar(a)twenkill.net) [050403 07:25]:
Magnus Manske wrote:
> Otherwise, with (n) wiki systems, *at least*
(n-1) will have to make
> changes, if not all of them. From what I can tell, "**" is used for
> "bold", so any of you really want to change from
"'''"? ;-)
''' and '' cause troubles
when the language use ' . In french we might
want to say : l'''étoile'' . Parser will bug on that one : it starts
bold then start italic.
It's bad enough in English. You end up with either tortured syntax or
tortured use of <nowiki>. Any language with apostrophes will have this
problem.
The 1.4 parser seems much better on this than the previous ones, and I am
removing lots of now useless <nowiki> from lots of pages in italian.
Things like l'''italia'' work correctly, producing an "l",
an apostrophe
and a word in italics. The only cases when <nowiki> is still necessary are
when there are multiple instances of ''', '' and ' on a single
line and
parsers gets confused.
Alfio