On Nov 11, 2007 2:32 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
We don't really need underline. And I don't agree: people use * and / all the time in normal text, whereas ** and // are almost unheard of. Yes, if people are going to quote C comments, they'll have to escape it, but that's basically the case now anyway with an empty string in Pascal etc. Let's not be biased towards quoting source code. And let's minimise the amount of escaping needed.
// appears in every single URL. It might be possible to have the parser recognise urls and automatically escape the token, but it's a definite complication.
Why would we replace apostrophes with some other markup for *both* bold and italics? Why not just have say, asterisks for bold and leave apostrophes for italics?