Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
One thing I noticed after resurrecting the test suite:
text in
double tics is now rendered as "<i>" instead of "<em>".
Was this
a consciously-made change, or just an error introduced into the
parser at some point?
It wouldn't be particularly correct to render it semantically as
"emphasis", because the double-tics just mean "italicize this text".
Sometimes that's used for emphasis (in which case <em> would be
correct), sometimes to italicize book titles (in which case <cite> would
be correct), and sometimes to italicize variables (in which case <var>
would be correct).
Unless we want to introduce three separate forms of wikimarkup for these
three cases, <i> is at least less wrong than the other options...
-Mark