[SPEC-CHANGE] lang parameter, minor line type changes, clarifications...

• 🗣️ From: Frank LENORMAND (lenormfml (a) gmail.com)
• 📅 Sent: 2020-06-07 18:38
• 📧 Message 4 of 35

Hi,

Thanks for this update!

On Sun Jun  7 19:27:23 2020, solderpunk wrote:
> The definition of unordered list item lines has been changed so that
> they begin not just with "*" but with "* ".  This allows the first word
> of a regular text line to be *emphasised* in a common fashion without
> the line being accidentally considered a list item.  GUS data suggests
> that everybody, or almost everybody, is already writing their list items
> this way, so this should not require any content updates by authors.
> See section 5.4.2 for full details.

This amendment that prevents conflicts between list items and

	
emphasised text* indirectly acknowledges that clients may not

render *emphasised text* verbatim.

Writers are no longer ensured by the standard that their text surrounded with
asterisks will not be decorated by the client, by extension.

Are there any plans to mention inline text decoration explicitly in the
specification? If yes, it follows that there should be a way for writers
to escape asterisks around words, in non pre-formatted blocks.

Regards,
-- 
Frank LENORMAND

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