On 13/09/06, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
They would have to balance *double* asterisks only. The assumption is that these will virtually never occur except when intended to be markup. Since bolding markup is normally used in matched pairs, there's not really any problem except if someone habitually fails to close their bold markup, and unclosed bold markup probably shouldn't render as bold altogether (to force people to match asterisks *all* the time so they don't get confused when it doesn't work at the beginning of a line).
This brings to mind a co-worker's annoyance with MoinMoin's table syntax - where if you don't put everything all on one ridiculously long line, it doesn't work (or so he says). Will you be required to put everything on one ridiculously long line if you want to bold a paragraph?
- d.