On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:22:20PM -0500, Simetrical wrote:
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 **.
It would require that lists be tagged with "* " rather than "*", but
that should be enough to disambig it, no? And it's not as bad a
collision as might be obvious, either, I don't think: List item markers
are always at hard-BOL, and are never matched until hard-EOL.
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.
I gather that you wouldn't. I think that view is short-sighted.
Cheers,
-- jra
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