Nikola Smolenski <smolensk <at> eunet.rs> writes:
> What I am going to say is going to be the worst heresy, but could this
> problem be solved by gradually migrating to a new wiki markup, for
> example **bold** and //italic//? This markup is more logical and easier
> to remember, more used outside of MediaWiki (unofficial email markup is
> similar) and more easily visible than apostrophe markup, and I never
> understood how the apostrophes came to be in the first place. The most
> important for this discussion - it also has much less potential to
> confuse the parser.
You avoid a lot of pain if the opening and closing markup is different.
That is IMHO the other big problem besides reusing the same characters in ''/'''
and {{/{{{.
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