Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
The proposed change is just that ''' always opens a bold tag and ''
always opens an italic tag, not having to check *the entire wikitext*
for context (as is done currently)
This is not true, neither in MediaWiki's current parser, nor flexbisonparse.
would make things a lot easier, not just for machines
but for people
to, the only way to tell currently if ''' is really opening a whole
lot of bold text or just opening some italic text is to find the
matching '' or ''', that's not intuitive at all.
I can't follow this argumentation at all. The current behaviour is
extremely easy for our human editors because it does *what they expect*.
The construction "l'''homme''" should *not* open a bold
because this is
*not what they expect*. It is *way* easier for them than having to type
absolutely *anything* extra (even if it's just a "\").