On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 09:40:22PM -0500, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
(Nick Reinking nick@twoevils.org):
As far as Quotes.txt goes, ignoring the <p>s, we get: [...]
Well that's broken in very different ways from the current code and older versions. For one thing, \n should close all open phrase-level markup; i.e., '' and ''' should not span lines.
On the other hand, <em><em>...</em></em> IS valid and legal (if somewhat redundant) HTML.
As far as the \n closing, I can change it to behave like that, although it seems clearer to me if it continues to span lines (ala HTML). It doesn't bother me either way (other than a bit more coding). Do a lot of people not close their ''/'''/'''''s?
This is how it works, based on what seems to be represented on http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AHow_to_edit_a_page
'' ... '' <---- <em> ... </em> ''' ... ''' <---- <strong> ... </strong> ''''' ... ''''' <---- <strong><em> ... </em></strong>
That is, it considers ''''' to be entirely different than ''' followed by '' (which is how the current code parses it, but not how the HOWTO page seems to explain it).