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.

I really don't see why it can't recognize *** as a unique token, and figure out how to do the right thing by just adding a few more rules. This doesn't seem like an insoluble problem to me.

-Jacob

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