On 11/29/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Would this be an accurate summary of your suggestion: Bold can only start immediately after whitespace, or an apostrophe? I think that's equivalent to what you said, but I'm not sure. If it is the same, then it might be a slighter easier way to describe it to users.
Um. I guess there is whitespace, there are letters, then there is a lot of grey area which is neither whitespace nor letters..
Since we're really targeting these particular language expressions, I think it makes sense to restrict this behaviour to *letters* rather than *non-whitespace*. Also, I only suggested changing the behaviour in the middle of a word, rather than at the end, which you rule out in your definition.
That is, this''' would be bold in my definition, but not yours.
So, the definition I would go with: Bold can be toggled anywhere except between two letters.
Where "letters" is suitably broad to cover all letters, accented or otherwise, in all languages that are likely to want to use this construct.
(This could need refining, but we'd need input from actual users of these languages. Is a French speaker likely to want to write l'''11'' for instance? Perhaps.)
Steve