Re: another convert-ly problem

[Erik Sandberg]

> > Really? Doing _nothing_ would actually be satisfactory.. The problem is
> > that one parenthesis is moving:
> > 1.8: a4_#'(italic "Simile") c
> > 1.9: a4_#'(italic "Simile" c)
> > so if you just would detect the #', you could assume that it would be
> > followed by a nonempty balanced parenthesis expression, which you just
> > could output as it is (hence the c wouldn't see that there's a
> > parenthesis before it, which I assume is the problem). Wouldn't that
> > work?
>
> Yes it would, but how would you parse a balanced parenthesis
> expression using regular expressions?

Aaaaah.. So you're somehow limited to regexps.. explains everything :) 

I have to admit that for a while, I thought it was due to laziness that you 
left out some nontrivial conversions..

Erik