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| author | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2019-03-23 09:18:38 -0700 |
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| committer | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2019-03-23 09:18:38 -0700 |
| commit | 83ed53e12aa2e011b04474825bfb22a40682e4a0 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d6ea50e767f2fd9e4cedb676785d30cc4d726df | |
| parent | 9c6c62fcd36210c1233187c8ff9a5fa15f7f146d (diff) | |
Match interior delimiter runs if lengths of both are multiples of 3.
This gives better results on `a***b***c` without giving bad results
on the cases that motivated the original multiple of 3 rule.
Closes #528.
| -rw-r--r-- | spec.txt | 26 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -6109,7 +6109,8 @@ The following rules define emphasis and strong emphasis: [delimiter runs]. If one of the delimiters can both open and close emphasis, then the sum of the lengths of the delimiter runs containing the opening and closing delimiters - must not be a multiple of 3. + must not be a multiple of 3 unless both lengths are + multiples of 3. 10. Strong emphasis begins with a delimiter that [can open strong emphasis] and ends with a delimiter that @@ -6119,7 +6120,8 @@ The following rules define emphasis and strong emphasis: [delimiter runs]. If one of the delimiters can both open and close strong emphasis, then the sum of the lengths of the delimiter runs containing the opening and closing - delimiters must not be a multiple of 3. + delimiters must not be a multiple of 3 unless both lengths + are multiples of 3. 11. A literal `*` character cannot occur at the beginning or end of `*`-delimited emphasis or `**`-delimited strong emphasis, unless it @@ -6738,7 +6740,8 @@ is precluded by the condition that a delimiter that can both open and close (like the `*` after `foo`) cannot form emphasis if the sum of the lengths of the delimiter runs containing the opening and -closing delimiters is a multiple of 3. +closing delimiters is a multiple of 3 unless +both lengths are multiples of 3. For the same reason, we don't get two consecutive @@ -6778,6 +6781,23 @@ omitted: ```````````````````````````````` +When the lengths of the interior closing and opening +delimiter runs are *both* multiples of 3, though, +they can match to create emphasis: + +```````````````````````````````` example +foo***bar***baz +. +<p>foo<em><strong>bar</strong></em>baz</p> +```````````````````````````````` + +```````````````````````````````` example +foo******bar*********baz +. +<p>foo<strong><strong><strong>bar</strong></strong></strong>***baz</p> +```````````````````````````````` + + Indefinite levels of nesting are possible: ```````````````````````````````` example |