I think it's not so much "intuitive" as "people have been using it for
so long that it just seems natural". And // certainly conveys a notion
of slantiness, while ** has a history of making things stand out. Not
that I would ever support such a change, but it certainly makes more
sense than '' and ''' :)
On 5/14/05, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Fredrik Johansson wrote:
Why not the intuitive /italicized text/ and *bold
text*?
What's intuitive about that?
Ec
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