On Fri, 13 May 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
And we'd also need to *fix* all pages with this syntax, and we can't really fix automatically, need to check on a case-by-case basis.
Why not? The current parser manages just fine with it, you could write a bot that changes everything with the same rule.
The proposed change is just that ''' always opens a bold tag and '' always opens an italic tag, not having to check *the entire wikitext* for context (as is done currently)
I'm pretty sure that only the current line of text is checked, not the entire article.
Alfio