Relatedly, would the refactored fontification also handle nested bold and italic
text where the delimiters for those are adjacent to one another?
Right now, for example:
/this is italic *and some bold italic*/
is only fontified in Emacs as italic. The portion of the text that is meant to
be bold does not have the bold property applied. However, if the text is
exported, e.g. to HTML, the bold and the italic styling are all exported
correctly.
On the other hand, this:
/this is italic *and some bold italic* and some more italics/
is fontified correctly in Emacs. I'm guessing that this is because in the first
example, the regular expression for bold doesn't match, because it has a ~/~
next to it, while the regular expression for italics matches, as it has
whitespace after. In the second example, both delimiters have whitespace before
and after, so both match for their respective texts.
Thanks,
Rohit
