From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ed Hirgelt" Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Emphasis font-lock question. Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 10:09:16 -0700 Message-ID: <44d0d9630609081009p3dd25905m9969d458f51520b2@mail.gmail.com> References: <6905fe866ab79ff425d2c7e1ce1a166b@science.uva.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1989698051==" Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GLjqx-0002QW-NV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:09:19 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GLjqv-0002Fv-7S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:09:19 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GLjqv-0002Ff-48 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:09:17 -0400 Received: from [64.233.166.182] (helo=py-out-1112.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GLjrY-0003Hl-Iq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:09:56 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d42so691077pyd for ; Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:09:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Alex Bochannek Cc: emacs-orgmode --===============1989698051== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_54630_16054184.1157735356127" ------=_Part_54630_16054184.1157735356127 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 9/8/06, Alex Bochannek wrote: > > > It's OK to me if */foo/* means italic and bold (this is how Gnus > rendered your example), but */foo/bar* shouldn't. Markers, stacked or > otherwise, should come in symmetrical pairs. Nice example because there is a symmetric pair there. I have always thought that this was a very ambiguous notation. I can see */foo/bar* meaning that foo is in bold italic and bar is just bold with the two words run together. For this reason (pesky slashes in path names, + as bullet characters, underscores in names) I've abandoned this notation. The @<> is more verbose, but unambiguous. -=Ed=- -- Ed Hirgelt Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. ------=_Part_54630_16054184.1157735356127 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 9/8/06, Alex Bochannek <alexb@juniper.net> wrote:

It's OK to me if */foo/* means italic and bold (this is how Gnus
rendered your example), but */foo/bar* shouldn't. Markers, stacked or otherwise, should come in symmetrical pairs.

Nice example because there is a symmetric pair there.  I have always thought that this was a very ambiguous notation.  I can see */foo/bar* meaning that foo is in bold italic and bar is just bold with the two words run together.

For this reason (pesky slashes in path names, + as bullet characters, underscores in names) I've abandoned this notation.  The @<> is more verbose, but unambiguous.

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