On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 08:41:34PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
On 09/11/2007, Jay R. Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com>
wrote:
That is, I suspect that //**this** wouldn't
be any harder// for people
to write, and in fact, quite a bit easier, and it would be *much*
easier to parse. In point of fact, I suspect that on point 2 above, if
we changed that from '''''this''' wouldn't be any
harder'', that people
would *cheer*, and not grumble.
(I, personally, think that *bold*, /italics/ and _underline_ would
parse just fine, and that they wouldn't be nearly as difficult to
disambig as people assert, but I've never tried to write a parser.)
Maybe, but I think your chances of getting '' and ''' removed from
MediaWiki wikitext are zero.
They certainly are, if no one ever examines the corpus. I've just
banged up a new server in the office, if no one else who already *has*
a mirror of, say, en.wp set up steps up, I may do the testing myself,
in my Copious Free Time.
I was hoping Jeff Merkey would volunteer, though. :-)
Cheers
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