Textile reader: bold and inline code interfere with each other

[PowerKiKi]

It is not possible to read correctly a formatting made to look like GitHub mentions. The presence of @ and * interlaced breaks the output. This syntax should probably be supported as it is supported on https://txstyle.org/ and in Redmine.

Actual:

$ echo '*@John* not bold *@Jane*' | pandoc -f textile -t markdown
**`John* not bold *`Jane**

Expected:

$ echo '*@John* not bold *@Jane*' | pandoc -f textile -t markdown
**@John** not bold **@Jane**

[jgm]

Pandoc's behavior matches that of the online dingus at https://txstyle.org/

[PowerKiKi]

I beg to differ, the text "not bold" should not be bold. On https://txstyle.org/, entering the string

*@John* not bold *@Jane*

returns the correct HTML:

<p><strong>@John</strong> not bold <strong>@Jane</strong></p>

which corresponds to the expected output, but not actual output of pandoc. pandoc v1.17.2 will make the text "not bold" bold (and mess up the @ which disappear completely).

[jgm]

OK, now I get this result too (I don't know why I thought I
got the other result last night).

It's not really clear to me what the rules are.
Nothing in the syntax description for inline code
rules out parsing @John* not bold *@ as an inline
code span.

+++ Adrien Crivelli [Jul 19 16 00:16 ]:

I beg to differ, the text "not bold" should not be bold. On
[1]https://txstyle.org/, entering the string
@john not bold @jane

returns the correct HTML:

@john not bold @jane

which corresponds to the expected output, but not actual output of
pandoc. pandoc v1.17.2 will make the text "not bold" bold (and mess up
the @ which disappear completely).

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1. https://txstyle.org/
2. Textile reader: bold and inline code interfere with each other #3024 (comment)
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[PowerKiKi]

I didn't read the syntax, but wouldn't that be something along the lines of "an inline formatting cannot include another inline formatting" ? So the bold starts, the code is ignored, and then the bold finishes. Then one more time for the second word ?... That may be over simplistic though...

[jgm]

You can have *_hi_*, emph in bold, so it's not that simple.

+++ Adrien Crivelli [Jul 19 16 09:28 ]:

I didn't read the syntax, but wouldn't that be something along the
lines of "an inline formatting cannot include another inline
formatting" ? So the bold starts, the code is ignored, and then the
bold finishes. Then one more time for the second word ?... That may be
over simplistic though...

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