SmartyPants 1.6 multiply remarks

[John Gruber]

Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote on 2/13/06 at 6:13 PM:


> > 4 x 2  ->  4 &times; 2  in EducateExtras, too.

> 

> Which is a great idea. But I'm not sure about how it works currently.  

> All goes well in these two cases:

> 

>      800x600

>      5 x 5

> 

> But maybe it's not a so good idea that it also replace the x with a  

> multiply for this:

> 

>      2006 x11

>      120x 31y 6z

> 

> Three dimensions doesn't work either (only the first x is changed):

> 

>      4 x 2 x 3

> 

> And finally, maybe `\x` should be added to the list of character  

> escapes.


These are all great catches. I'll fix them for the next beta. Now
that I can work on this stuff during the day, I'll try to release
a new SmartyPants and Markdown soon.

-J.G.