Steve Hoelzer wrote:
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Michel Fortin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Le 2008-03-04 à 13:15, david parsons a écrit :
> But what's the intent of ***hello*, sailor** ?
>
> Should it produce
> 1. <strong><em>hello</em>, sailor</strong>
> 2. <strong>*hello*, sailor</strong>
> 3. *<strong>hello*, sailor</strong>
> 4. ***hello<em>, sailor<strong>
> 5. ***hello*, sailor**
> 6. <em><strong>hello</strong></em><strong>, sailor</strong>
> 7. <em><strong>hello</em>, sailor</strong> (which makes baby XML
> cry) ?
I'd say 1:
<snip>
A better question is what to do with this:
*hello **dear* boy**
For cases like these, I'd say that Markdown shouldn't do anything.
>From the official Markdown page:
The overriding design goal for Markdown's formatting syntax is to make
it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted
document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking
like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While
Markdown's syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML
filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown's syntax
is the format of plain text email.
So, the question is: Would you ever see **mismatched *asterisks***
intentionally written in plain text email?
I don't think so, because it doesn't make intuitive sense. And if I
can't make sense of the plain text, why should Markdown define one
interpretation as being correct?
Steve
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Perhaps if strong and emphasis is desired in such a situation the spec
should state to use * and __ or _ and ** to better distinguish between
them. So *** would simply be *** unless balanced with a *** on the other
side of the wrapped text. The sample could thus be *hello __dear* boy__
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