Re: Org-syntax: Intra-word markup

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

a silly question.  don't we already use something kinda similar to
\emph{what}ever for all backends?  could we do so?

On 12/2/21, Denis Maier <denismaier@mailbox.org> wrote:
> Am 02.12.2021 um 19:11 schrieb Tom Gillespie:
>> I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but the edge cases for
>> the current markup syntax are already hard enough to
>> implement correctly, to the point where different parts of
>> Org mode are inconsistent. Intra-word markup isn't viable
>> because there simply isn't any sane way to parse something
>> like *hello world*/hrm/oh no*. The other issue is that this will
>> degrade parsing performance because almost every
>> character could precede the start of a markup section.
>>
>> I recommend anyone suggesting solutions try to implement
>> something that can parse the markup unambiguously with
>> lots of nasty test cases. You will likely find that it is impossible
>> to consistently tokenize markup, and that you have to hand
>> write a whole bunch of heuristics, making Org syntax even
>> harder to implement correctly.
>>
>> Any solution that suggests extending how =/*~+_  can be
>> used gets a hard no from me. I could see teaching other
>> exporters how to interpret \emph{hello}world, but trying for
>> to have any sane behavior for something like
>> why *hello*world oh no a wild askterisk*
>> is not worth it.
>
> As I've said before, I could well live with \emph{what}ever or something
> similar.
>
> Denis
>
>


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