From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
Date: 2004-11-20T12:01:56+09:00
Subject: BlueCloth bold/italic problem.

I have discovered that in the latest release of BlueCloth, it's
impossible to render 2-character words in either bold or italic.

I looked through the source code, and I found the reason why:

        # Pattern to match strong emphasis in Markdown text
        BoldRegexp = %r{ (\*\*|__) (\S|\S.+?\S) \1 }x

        # Pattern to match normal emphasis in Markdown text
        ItalicRegexp = %r{ (\*|_) (\S|\S.+?\S) \1 }x

Notice that the regexps only match strings that are either 1 character
long or at least 3 characters long.  To fix this, I believe that the
code needs to be changed as follows:

        # Pattern to match strong emphasis in Markdown text
        BoldRegexp = %r{ (\*\*|__) (\S|\S.*?\S) \1 }x

        # Pattern to match normal emphasis in Markdown text
        ItalicRegexp = %r{ (\*|_) (\S|\S.*?\S) \1 }x

(I replaced ".+?" with ".*?")

Is there any reason for why this change shouldn't be made?  If so, is
there another way to get BlueCloth to render 2-character words in bold
or italics?

Thanks in advance.


-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com
 God bless you.