Steve Bennett wrote:
On 6/22/06, Neil Harris neil@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
The only example I can think of a use of -- that should not map to emdash is in programming languages like C, where x-- is used to mean "take the value of x and then decrement it"
Heh. Actually in that case, it's likely to be indented with a space, which effectively does <nowiki> anyway. Other uses?
That is not true. Space-indented text is still subject to some parsing, e.g. ''' for bold.