> I would characterize this as an idiosyncrasy rather than a bug. Start > entering unusual character sequences and you won't have dig very deep to > find more cases like this.
I guess this is more of an inconsistency, but since a bit of experimentation shows its possible to get any character sequence you want by judicious combinations of none, one or two backslashes then its ok to leave it as that. > > AsciiDoc is not based on a well defined grammar like XML -- there is no What, you didn't do a 900 page Phd thesis on "A Monadic approach to Functional Imperatives in the design of the Asciidoc Language" :-D > simple set of inviolable rules. The AsciiDoc markup was not designed, it > just grew holistically over time, use-case by use-case, a bit like the way > human language evolves -- it's full of junk DNA and idiosyncrasies. This is > not to say that it has no underlying structure or aesthetic sensibility, > it's just that its domain is typography not computing. Human and machine > document processing work completely differently, if they didn't we'd all be > reading well formed XML, and it goes a long way to explaining why, at first > glance, computer typographic software systems often appear to be incoherent > sprawling muddles. > Yes, and lets not get on to Unicode and things like combining characters that are not word characters but appear in words etc. That one totally ruined the day for a gentleman trying to write a highlighter for a wiki language, all the funny characters being loose between his syntax, not safely corralled in strings and comments like the other language highlighters he'd looked at :-) Cheers Lex -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
