From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-06-29T01:19:43+09:00
Subject: Re: `*' spanning multiple words in rdoc

Massimiliano Mirra <list@NOSPAMchromatic-harp.com> writes:

> Is there a way for `*' in rdoc to surround multiple words instead of
> just one?  I.e. "*bold text*" -> "<b>bold text</b>" instead of "*bold*
> *text*" -> "<b>bold</b> <b>text</b>".

That seemed to be problematic, as it seemed likely that you could
always have more than one asterisk in a paragraph, and you wouldn't
want all the text between them to be bold, as in:

   You can specify a parameter to receive the optional arguments
   using the *rest notation, so that you could then call the
   method with 'fred(1, 2, 3*4)'.

However, you can always used <b>anything you want</b> to get a span on
bold text.


Dave