Andrew Rodland wrote:
I had guessed that it might find some use in fr --
It's too bad to
hear that it's "widely" used. However, I should note that it's not
_required_. <nowiki> resolves the ambiguity nicely. The fact that it
takes 17 characters is, well, unfortunate, but it's _correct_. The
workaround, on the other hand, does bad things to the language, and
makes the implementation of a more advanced parser exceedingly
difficult.
I'm not sure if it would be a more or less drastic change, but making
bold be four tics instead of three would also solve the problem. Then
without lookahead: 2 tics is italics; 3 ticks is an apostrophe plus
italics; 4 tics is bold; 5 tics is an apostrophe plus bold; 6 tics is
bold and italic; and 7 tics is an apostrophe plus bold and italic.
-Mark