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 **.
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.