question: private void parseBoldAndItalicSpans ( SpanManager sm , Span line , List < Span > boldSpans , List < Span > italicSpans ) { parseQuotedSpans ( sm , line , boldSpans , "'''" ) ; parseQuotedSpans ( sm , line , italicSpans , "''" ) ; int openTag = sm . indexOf ( "''" , line ) ; if ( openTag != - 1 ) { Span qs = new Span ( openTag , line . getEnd ( ) ) ; if ( calculateSrcSpans ) { qs . setSrcSpan ( new SrcSpan ( sm . getSrcPos ( openTag ) , sm . getSrcPos ( line . getEnd ( ) ) ) ) ; } if ( sm . indexOf ( "'''" , openTag , openTag + 3 ) != - 1 ) { boldSpans . add ( qs ) ; sm . delete ( openTag , openTag + 3 ) ; } else { italicSpans . add ( qs ) ; sm . delete ( openTag , openTag + 2 ) ; } } }
target:  Searches a line for Bold and Italic quotations, this has to be done linewhise.