Backtick Hickup

[Jacob Rus]

John MacFarlane wrote:

> If the suggestion is that the lexer is going to identify '**' as

> a "strong emphasis marker" and '*' as an "emphasis marker," prior

> to any parsing, I don't see how that's possible. Consider

> 

>     ***bold** in italics*

> 

>     ***italics* in bold**

> 

> There's no way of knowing whether the initial two *'s should start

> strong emphasis unless you scan forward.


I really don't see why it can't recognize *** as a unique token, and 
figure out how to do the right thing by just adding a few more rules. 
This doesn't seem like an insoluble problem to me.

-Jacob