Re: [asciidoc-lang-dev] Text Markup, syntax and parsing thereof

[Sylvain Leroux <sylvain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi 马旋,

Thanks for your message. It's nice to have feedback from someone using
AsciiDoc with a non-latin script. Some comments below:

On 08/03/2021 08:03, Lex Trotman wrote:
>         ...
> 
>         1. constrained markup uses two single characters as markup, so
>         to avoid clashes with content they are only valid markup in
>         constrained situations.  The general intention is that they
>         surround words or groups of words with the opening being before
>         a word and the closing being after a word.  Start of word and
>         end of word are defined as space followed by letter like
>         characters and the end of the word is defined to be letter like
>         character then space or some punctuations.
> 
> 
>     This is the No.1 confusion to me initially.  There are no spaces
>     between words/characters for CJKV, so the concept doesn't really
>     apply. Better to just have one markup to cover all.
> 
> 
> Yes the definition of constrained markups (single * _ # etc) is not
> suitable for languages/scripts where the concept of "word" and "word
> separator" does not exist.  Unconstrained markups (doubled ** __ ##)
> should however work for those languages/scripts.  If there are places
> where unconstrained does not work that should be addressed to the
> specification (or implementation if its a bug in one of those).
> 
> But removing the constrained markups that work in many languages/scripts
> simply because they don't work in all does not seem appropriate to me,
> especially as they are heavily used in existing documents and fit with
> the AsciiDoc lightweight readable markup goal.
I agree with Lex. We cannot remove constrained markups: they are useful
in so may different use cases. Not mentioning "compatibility" with other
lightweight markup languages. That being said, the exact nature of a
"word delimiter" is something we try to investigate in this thread.

I know Japanese have the quotation marks (「　」) and lenticular
brackets (【　】). And Unicode defines U+3000 as the "Ideographic
Space". Maybe worth considering these characters as word separators?
That being said, my knowledge of the Japanese language mainly come fro
JRPG--so it's quite limited and input from people more knowledgeable
than me is required here.

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