On 5/12/05, Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com wrote:
Moin,
On Thursday 12 May 2005 20:50, Nicolas Weeger wrote:
That's too tech-savy. The aim of wikisyntax is to be easy to understand - we can't ask people to put a \ before ' or surround it by <nowiki></nowiki>. I don't mind a slightly more complex syntax for tables, templates & such, "advanced" behaviour. But for your daily usage (and ' is used often at least in french), something quite simple to use is imo waaaaaaay better.
Yes, I agree on the "simple" solution. However, the current situation isn't "simple" for things like l'''italic'' because it is unclear what exactly that should mean. Maybe it means
l<i>'italic</i>
or it means
l'<i>italic</i>
How is the computer (and the human writing it) to know which is which? You need at least one more bit information to distinguish between these two variants.
Exactly. Now add to that the complication that ''' supposedly means something completely different from _both_ of those when it's not in the middle of a word, and that (as with much of the syntax) there has never been any well-defined rule governing this behavior, only a last-resort hack in PHP code. It's not simple conceptually, and it's far from simple for the computer, and it's bad for parsing. I hate to be argumentative, but I don't believe that the issue is as simple (heh) as you make it out to be, Nicolas.