Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 01:04:37PM +1100, Steve
Bennett wrote:
On 11/10/07, Simetrical
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would view bold italics with adjacent
apostrophes as a corner case.
The behavior in that case makes very little sense and I doubt it's
being widely used.
There's one obvious use: French. Eg: L''''arc de triomphe de
l'Étoile'''
appelé...
(though interestingly when I got to that page, the initial ' was actually
a ')
But yes, clearer, unambiguous syntax that didn't rely on arbitrary
processing rules would be good.
For example one might define a character like _ which represents a
non-joining non-space. So the above could be written L'_'''arc de
triomphe''' which would be clearer and unambiguous.
Or, and here's an idea I don't see much, we could define **bold** and
//italics// as *additional* ways to punctuate such things, and keep the
old ones until they wither and die.
L'//arc de Triompe// would be *entirely* unambiguous.
Then people could be using L'<i>arc de Triompe</i> (or L'<b>arc
de
Triompe</b> for the original wikitext).
That's something guaranteed not to change. You don't even need a parser! :D