Just to throw in another voice saying this is never going to work:
people talk as if these things are centuries old traditions but they're
not. When people used typewriters, they underlined to mean bold;
asterisks have been used in a number of ways since the invention and no
one has ever had the power to dictate how things should be. I was
using*to imply emphasis or a change of register long before markdown
came along. Using italics is a way of changing the register of the text,
and you still have to interpret that within the context of the genre you
are writing in. in poetry it means one thing, in academic texts another
and so on. Better to explain what they mean in your particular context
as and when it arises than to try to move the whole world an inch to the
left.
I'm struggling to understand why people can't escape asterisks like
\*this\* if they want them to be visible (it will be interesting to see
if my markdown emailer passes that on safely to you all!
On 4 Jun 2020, at 3:22, Christian Perry wrote:
One thing I'll add, if that's alright, when it comes to transitioning
standards.
It wouldn't have to break anything to update MD syntax: simply present
it as a new version, and note that certain conventions from old
version are being deprecated. Put it on LTS and give the industry 15
years to adapt (I'm serious about this).
Companies who want v1.1, with native bounding asterisk support, can
transition sooner if they want.
Cheers,
Jason
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