Joel de Guzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Ahh, to make this non-marked-up:
>
>      a/b
>
> ?? Yeah, sure. Ok.

Actually I think that would only be needed to make this non-marked-up:


         a/b/

but I don't think it's so terrible to have the above mean

    a<italic>b</italic>

and it is actually easier for 3rd-party tools like emacs if they don't
have to do lookbehind for Simple Formatting markup.  So I think I am
withdrawing my comment completely.

Okay, I guess there's one place we might regret not having that rule:

      The result of 3*5 is 15* wherever you do it.

      * unless you're using modulo-n arithmetic where n < 15

But I don't think that's significant; it is only a problem if you're
expecting simple plaintext to "just work."

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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