Joel de Guzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Abrahams wrote: >> If the matching markup cannot be found within a line, the formatting >> will not be applied. This is to ensure that un-matched formatting >> markups, which can be a common mistake, does not corrupt anything >> past a single line. We do not want the rest of the document to be >> rendered bold just because we forgot a trailing '*'. >> >> I think that rule is needlessly strict. Simple markup could (should) >> end by the end of a block (so only one-paragraph documents would have >> the above problem), and anyway quickbook ought to issue a syntax error >> if you fail to close your simple markup. Also a good syntax >> highligher will show you when you don't have the closing delimiter in >> place. > > I'm not sure. It will make it more complicated to support text like > the one in the More Formatting Samples (example 7): > > 3*4*5 = 60 (no bold) > > inside blocks like lists and tables.
I don't buy it. There's no punctuation or space surrounding those *s, so they shouldn't be bold. > The tendency is to gobble up > everything. I don't know what you mean. > I'm wary of giving the simple-markups more power than > they already have. It's too adhoc(**). After all, you also have the > more behaved and nestable style markups. The problem is that it interacts badly with line wrapping. If I start some bold text and then my line gets long or my paragraph gets reflowed, I can easily end up with a newline in my simple markup, breaking something that used to work. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Boost-docs mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe and other administrative requests: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-docs
