Re: The less ambiguous math delimiters in tables

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Rudolf Adamkovič <rudolf@adamkovic.org> writes:

>> |  this |  is |  a     |  normal       |  table  |  row |
>> || here || we || allow || verbatim "|" || inside ||    ||
>
> Your idea is not that different from what I proposed, except that it is
> a less general, in that you special-case one particular problem with
> tables.  Or, would the "doubling escapes" work for all markup?

Yes, all the markup.

> ... Still,
> that would not solve other table-related problems, such as
>
>   | =foo= and =bar= |,
>
> where the problem is = and not |, right?

What exactly is the problem in your example?

> As for "parser bugs", I find it hard to believe that we could not come
> up with some unambiguous sequence of characters, even if ugly, to
> instruct the parser about precedence.

We can. For example, via inline special blocks. Or via "repetitive
marker" syntax I suggested above.

And coming up with ugly syntax is worse than finding a good one.

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