From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Syntax question: What is BORDER in 4.17. Text Markup?
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 19:54:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y4+P02fColFJoSLb@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mt80e69n.fsf@wi.uni-muenster.de>
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On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 07:28:20PM +0100, Jens Lechtenboerger wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> the syntax for Text Markup such as *bold* at [1] specifies
> PRE MARKER CONTENTS MARKER POST with
> CONTENTS as BORDER BODY BORDER and
> BORDER as “Any non-whitespace character.”
>
> What is the role of BORDER here? Does it really exist?
>
> What is BORDER if CONTENTS should be a single character, e.g., in
> the two strings “*x*” and “~*~”? Are single characters forbidden?
Yes, this seems a bit unfortunate. The BORDER char may be identical
to the BODY. So *f* and *ff* are both valid markups.
Perhaps it'd be clearer to forget about the BORDER, only talk about
BODY and say that BODY is not empty and doesn't start or end with
a whitespace character.
Cheers
> [1] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-syntax.html#Emphasis_Markers
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-06 18:28 Syntax question: What is BORDER in 4.17. Text Markup? Jens Lechtenboerger
2022-12-06 18:54 ` tomas [this message]
2022-12-07 3:35 ` Max Nikulin
2022-12-07 7:16 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2022-12-07 7:54 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2022-12-07 9:36 ` Timothy
2022-12-07 10:29 ` Jens Lechtenboerger
2022-12-07 10:38 ` tomas
2022-12-07 15:43 ` Nick Dokos
2022-12-07 15:52 ` Ihor Radchenko
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