[pmwiki] Re: [Pmwiki-users] Whitepaper about markup strategy

[Thomas Tyler]

> BW> Yes, so it should be /italic/ *bold* _underline_ */bolditalic/*

> JH> Question for PM: would it cause problems with the * used for lists?

> The problem with /italic/ and *bold*, and which must be remembered in
> defining any sort of markup sequence, is that markup sequences have to be
> things that aren't likely to occur in "normal" text.  For example, if I
> write

> 	On 05/20/2003 we are going to the beach, on 05/21 we will be
> 	flying first to Dallas / Ft. Worth International Airport and then
> 	landing at Seattle/Tacoma airport.

> then what should be italicized?  A naive parsing would italicize "20" and
> "21 we will be flying first to Dallas" and lose the slashes, which is
> obviously wrong.

I thought about that after I wrote my earlier message. The problem is not
unlike what I already encounter with the : markup.

Just a thought... PmWiki already has established single-bracket use for
inline text formatting with [+...+] and [-...-]. What about extending it
with

[* bold text *]
[/ italic text /]
[*/ bold italic /*] or [/* bold italic */]
[_ underlinded text _]

And as long as the [[<<]] markup is being discussed, how about [=] ? It's at
least fewer characters, and they're close together on the keyboard.  :)

Janice, via Tom