Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
Fredrik Johansson <fredrik.johansson(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>Why not the intuitive /italicized text/ and *bold text*?
>
>
I like this syntax.
As for the specific characters you proposed, * at the
begining of a
line already means bullet; however, there is arguably a more accurate
heuristic for this than the ones people are currently
defending--basically, "does the rest of this paragraph contain an odd
or even number of stars?" Italicized text is somewhat more difficult;
sequences like foo/bar/baz aren't uncommon, and would be rendered
unintelligible by a transformation to italics.
The funny thing is my Thunderbird mailclient has *no* trouble
rendering all the *bold* /italicized/ and
possible/troubling/combinations you mention in your mail.... ;-)
Neil