On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:15:37AM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Two things:
- openings and closings of tags should not be the same ('' and ''), and they should not prefix-overlap (like '' and '''). You're just asking for troubles by introducing more such tags.
- don't do it with regular expresions. Be a real man and write LALR syntax. It will be order of magnitude faster, much easier to change, and correct (current wikipedia parser fails under some more complex cases) that way.
And third thing: Could we make it an official rule that no change in markup will be even considered without considering how would it affect CJK and right-to-left languages ?
And I can tell you how will it affect CJK - it will look much much worse.