Trailing !'s break the // italic formatting markup

[anonymous]

Found this in both the .12 and .13 demo sites.

Quite exciting italicises correctly.

Very exciting// doesn't drop out of italics; the trailing slashes are visible and the rest of this line is in italics.

Couldn't find a reference to this is the formatting page. Is it some quirk of formatting/not-a-bug?

[anonymous]

Huh. Obviously that doesn't make much sense if you can't see the source code of the comment.

It should be : Very exciting<exclamation mark>

[psuter <petsuter@…>]

I think this is by design and documented for example in WikiFormatting#FontStyles:

• ! tells wiki parser to not take the following characters as wiki format, so pay attention to put a space after !, e.g. when ending bold.

[anonymous]

Clearly, I'm an idiot.

[anonymous]

That only helps if it doesn't end up creating a space in a visible place - like before a close quote. e.g.:

• Acceptable! I can live with this.
• "Unacceptable! " This looks wrong.

[anonymous]

• ''"Inside!"'' → "Inside!": Can you live with moving the quotes inside the italics?
• *''Zerowidthspace!<ZWSP>''" → "Zerowidthspace!​": Alternatively you can put a ​Zero-width space there.

[Jun Omae]

That behavior is by design. Put a space after exclamation.

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