ZhurnalyWiki: WikiStrongEmphasis

About the five-tick "bold italic" (strong+emphasis) habit... :=)
:(Moved from protopage Judy Decker)

strong emphasis

> It's strictly speaking not italic and bold, but emphasis and strong (usually, but not always, rendered as i and b respectively). I suggest avoiding the combo em + strong, because is not well-defined in all browsers (besides it can be a pain getting the right number of ' before and after -- hard to see at a glance). -- Bo Leuf

You're right, of course, Bo ... and in fact, the arguments in TheWikiWay persuaded me to start using and tags throughout my ^zhurnal guestbook in place of my traditional and (I write raw HTML there) ... and indeed, I have noted that some browsers don't do a graceful job of nesting those two pairs of tags ... but it's so nice on others that I can't resist (^_^).

BTW, I note that in the Wiki-generated HTML the order of tags generated by five single-quotes is not properly symmetric: ^z rather than ^z ... I haven't looked to see how (or whether) this can be easily fixed ... perhaps changing the order of some pattern-matching operations? -- MarkZimmermann
:This is an artifact of perl pattern matching. The triple pattern is matched first, and this grabs the three first after the text. That leaves the trailing two on either side, hence incorrect order, and yet another reason to not do this in Wiki. -- BL

P.S. Hmmm ... when I did a "comment" append to this page, a chunk of the text above Bo's comment was repeated in the result, and I had to "edit" to get rid of it ... will experiment and learn some other time ... bug or feature?? -- MZ
:This is some quirky interaction with browser buffering and the go directly to page after save feature. I'll soon swap in a new version of wiki.lib that properly scopes a few of the critical variables so this shouldn't happen.

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