$*$
or \verb/*/
(these are sequences from the
LaTeX document language). Hence, a mechanism that expands a * in the input to
to \verb/*/
on the output, saves the users a lot of typing.
Second, forcing users to type weird sequences won't work if you're planning on
converting the same Yodl document to a different output format. If the user
types \verb/*/
in the input to typeset an asterisk in the output, how
should he or she arrive at a single * in the output in another output format?
The solution is of course to define the translation for an input character
like * given the output format.
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