On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:22:20PM -0500, Simetrical wrote:
On 2/12/07, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
Is that problem easier or harder to deal with than whatever problems you would have if you just redefined bold to *this* and italics to _that_?
Everyone keeps saying that causes horrible collisions, but *I* don't think that most of them are that difficult to disambig.
- collides horribly with list syntax. Even worse than **.
It would require that lists be tagged with "* " rather than "*", but that should be enough to disambig it, no? And it's not as bad a collision as might be obvious, either, I don't think: List item markers are always at hard-BOL, and are never matched until hard-EOL.
On 2/12/07, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
With reference to my similar note elsewhere, let us *please* attempt to utilize reflexes everyone[1] already has, rather than generating even more new markup tags?
Cheers, -- jra [1] Everyone who already has reflexes at all; let's not penalize the smart people *again*.
Only a vanishingly tiny percentage of our target audience (which is all of humanity) is familiar with Usenet-style emphasis conventions. I wouldn't assign them much weight.
I gather that you wouldn't. I think that view is short-sighted.
Cheers, -- jra