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Frank LENORMAND lenormfml at gmail.com
Sun Jun 7 19:38:04 BST 2020
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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 notrender *emphasised text* verbatim.
Writers are no longer ensured by the standard that their text surrounded withasterisks will not be decorated by the client, by extension.
Are there any plans to mention inline text decoration explicitly in thespecification? If yes, it follows that there should be a way for writersto escape asterisks around words, in non pre-formatted blocks.
Regards,-- Frank LENORMAND