Le 30 juin 2006 à 16:51, A. Pagaltzis a écrit :
The only reason that this hasn’t changed, I think, is that unfortunately no new releases have happened in a long time.
I'm not sure that's the only reason. John has been reluctant to change this part of the syntax now that we're past version 1.0 and that some people may be using that particular feature.
In my opinion, the backward compatibility argument has merit, especially since in some languages (like Japanese) "words" aren't separated by a space character like in western languages. Such a change would break any emphasis already written with underscores in these languages; someone would have to either manually edit all of the texts to change underscores to asterisks or stick to the current version of Markdown.
On the other side, I admit that I've changed the behaviour when making PHP Markdown Extra and got only positive comments about it. This particular problem seems to pop up regularly both on this list and in emails I receive. I think this was the main reason I decided to implement the change to my "Extra" syntax, were backward compatibility was less of an issue.
Here is what I think could be a good, long-term solution: Markdown (the syntax) could change and remove underscore-emphasis within words while Markdown (the tool) could offer a "backward-compatible mode" preserving the old behaviour. This would solve the issue while still giving the possibility to upgrade Markdown to those relying on the old syntax, with the only hassle of setting a configuration variable.
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