In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Hoelzer <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Michel Fortin
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Le 2008-03-04 à 13:15, david parsons a écrit :
>> > But what's the intent of ***hello*, sailor** ?
>So, the question is: Would you ever see **mismatched *asterisks***
>intentionally written in plain text email?
>I don't think so, because it doesn't make intuitive sense. And if I
>can't make sense of the plain text, why should Markdown define one
>interpretation as being correct?
And thus the argument that we can't more accurately define the
existing language because it will make things unintuitive is not
really a feasable one (which is sort of the point that I was
muddling towards before you wrote it much more clearly.)
-david parsons
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