Re: [PATCH] Add new entity \-- serving as markup separator/escape symbol

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> The good point in your patch is that \- is still work as shy hyphen 
> (that, by the way, may be used in some cases instead of zero width 
> space: *intra*\-word). On the other hand I have managed to find a case 
> when your approach is not ideal:
>
> *\--scratch\--*
>
> <p>
> <b>&#x00ad;-scratch</b></p>

Well. I think that it is impossible to use the same escape construct to
both force emphasis and escape it.

However, we can do

 *scratch\--{}*

which is a bit hacky, but it is the best thing I can think of without
introducing two separate entities: one for forcing the markup and one
for escaping the markup.

In general, the proposed \-- entity is only meaningful _before_ markup
characters. When it is placed after markup character, it does literally
nothing.

Best,
Ihor