+ Clarify block quote and plain text parsing and formatting behavior. +
+Many important terms used in this document are defined in &unicode;. @@ -175,32 +201,15 @@
Matches of spans between two styling directives MUST contain some text between the two styling directives and the opening styling directive MUST be located at the beginning of the line, or after a whitespace character. - The opening styling directive MUST also not be followed by a whitespace - character. - The closing styling directive MUST NOT be preceeded by a whitespace - character. + The opening styling directive MUST NOT be followed by a whitespace + character and the closing styling directive MUST NOT be preceeded by a + whitespace character. Spans are always parsed from the beginning of the byte stream to the end and are lazily matched. Characters that would be styling directives but do not follow these rules @@ -229,10 +238,21 @@
+ Any text inside of a block that is not part of another span is + implicitly considered to be inside of a "plain text" span. +
+