Re: [RFC] Creole-style / Support for **emphasis**__within__**a word**

[Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>]

Hi all,

Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

[ ...]

>
> Also, there is no "backward-compatibility squad", only users who care
> about what they like.

I have been part in threads that discuss backward-compatibility.  As it
looks, there is the feeling that this ML is too(?) much concerned about
backward-compatibility -- even in favour over new features or cleaner
implementation (both of which the proposed emphasis change would be an
example of, IIUC).

In a way, I am happy that backward-compatibility is now a major
concern.  But on the other hand, it is not my intention to block
enhancements.

For the case at hand, I would happily type double letter emphasis, if
that helps to get a clean implementation.  If it even allows more
features, that would be a benefit.

My point of writing is this:  If a change like this was going to happen,
it would be very nice if a function was provided to change from the old
style to the new style.  This was (at least) once the case for a major
backward incompatible change in babel and even if it did not work
flawlessly it was a big help.
I guess it would be easy for the lisp-guru who removes the regexp to
turn it into such a function.  But it would take quite some time for me
to dig that regexp somewhen later and produce a working translation
function from it...

Anyway, as it looks this is probably hypothetical for this particular
change.

Regards,
Andreas