On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 08:41:34PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
On 09/11/2007, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
That is, I suspect that //**this** wouldn't be any harder// for people to write, and in fact, quite a bit easier, and it would be *much* easier to parse. In point of fact, I suspect that on point 2 above, if we changed that from '''''this''' wouldn't be any harder'', that people would *cheer*, and not grumble. (I, personally, think that *bold*, /italics/ and _underline_ would parse just fine, and that they wouldn't be nearly as difficult to disambig as people assert, but I've never tried to write a parser.)
Maybe, but I think your chances of getting '' and ''' removed from MediaWiki wikitext are zero.
They certainly are, if no one ever examines the corpus. I've just banged up a new server in the office, if no one else who already *has* a mirror of, say, en.wp set up steps up, I may do the testing myself, in my Copious Free Time.
I was hoping Jeff Merkey would volunteer, though. :-)
Cheers -- jra