Add a token type like Generic.EmphStrong to allow bold italic styling

[diskdance]

For markup languages like Markdown, syntaxes like ***bold italic*** create a bold italic styled text. Unfortunately I didn't find a way to achieve this since we only have Generic.Emph and Generic.Strong token type. Given that such syntaxes exist in many markup languages, should we add a token type like Generic.EmphStrong?

[Anteru]

I think this makes sense, but I'm wondering about the potential fallout. Technically all you need to do is to have a new standard type in token.py, and add it to default.py in styles, but I'm afraid this may require touching up all lexers which have definitions for Generic.Strong and Generic.Emph -- I didn't check how many of those are around though.

[afarlie]

Aside: No Generic.Underline? I can't think of any languages whose syntax explanations would need that though. Maybe URL's in HTML/XML type markups?

[NovemLinguae]

I think this makes sense, but I'm wondering about the potential fallout. Technically all you need to do is to have a new standard type in token.py, and add it to default.py in styles, but I'm afraid this may require touching up all lexers which have definitions for Generic.Strong and Generic.Emph -- I didn't check how many of those are around though.

Could those be future patches and not hold up the first patch? Looks like a good opportunity for incremental improvement.