On 14/11/2007, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In summary, the syntax is a complete mess, so both our
solutions are
complete messes. I'm really not sure which is better, but I don't
think there's much in it. My idea does allow for saving the tidied
version if people want (I'd prefer it to be an option, rather than
happening automatically as someone else suggested), which would be a
nice feature, but far from a vital one. It also allows for tidying
more than just bold and italics if we find anything else that needs
similar treatment (lists, perhaps). Does your idea have any similar
added benefits?
I'd pick the one that better enables third-party implementations from
the spec. If there's nasty stuff to do as well, at least it can be
specified nasty stuff, with public-domain pseudocode to work from and
so forth.
- d.