On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:15:37AM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Two things:
* openings and closings of tags should not be the same ('' and ''),
and they should not prefix-overlap (like '' and ''').
You're just asking for troubles by introducing more such
tags.
* don't do it with regular expresions. Be a real man and write
LALR syntax. It will be order of magnitude faster, much easier
to change, and correct (current wikipedia parser fails under some
more complex cases) that way.
And third thing:
Could we make it an official rule that no change in markup will
be even considered without considering how would it affect CJK and
right-to-left languages ?
And I can tell you how will it affect CJK - it will look much much worse.