David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joel de Guzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Yes. Simple markups cannot contain any other form of quickbook markup. > > Even backslash escapes to prevent closing the simple markup? I find > that counterintuitive. > >> David Abrahams wrote: >>> http://tinyurl.com/yxbt6p#quickbook.syntax.phrase.simple_formatting >>> (tools/quickbook/doc/html/quickbook/syntax/phrase.html) >>> >>> has a list of rules for simple formatting. I think it's missing a >>> rule that says space or punctuation must precede the opening >>> delimiter. >> >> No. Allowing that permits adjacent inline markup as shown above. > > That's already allowed because all those delimiters are punctuation.
Still true > If space or punctuation wasn't required before the opening delimiter, > > / foo/ > > would parse as emphasized, but it doesn't. I'm on crack, obviously. There's already a rule preventing that case. -- 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
