On Aug 20, 2007, at 10:17 AM, John MacFarlane wrote:
If the suggestion is that the lexer is going to identify '**' as
a "strong emphasis marker" and '*' as an "emphasis marker," prior
to any parsing, I don't see how that's possible. Consider
***bold** in italics*
***italics* in bold**
There's no way of knowing whether the initial two *'s should start
strong emphasis unless you scan forward.
Btw, I notice that the TextMate syntax highlighter gets these cases
wrong. Markdown.pl gets them wrong too, turning the first into
<p><strong><em>bold</strong> in italics</em></p>
pandoc gets them right:
I think your just proving the case here not helping it. The markdown
page is very vague in this regard not even mentioning that ***bold
italics*** works. It says that asterisks surrounded by whitespace are
literal. Technically the following should work according to the page:
foo** bold **foo
What makes the Markdown.pl interpretation wrong? (Ignoring for the
moment it's improperly nested html.) Without a proper syntax you
can't say that either one is right or wrong, only that one is
preferable in your opinion.
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