On 2/12/07, Jay R. Ashworth <jra(a)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(a)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.