<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Fred B wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Bitstream Vera Sans Mono">Two other things I dislike about using Markdown for email is that</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Bitstream Vera Sans Mono">bold (</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Lucida Grande">⌘</FONT><FONT face="Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Bitstream Vera Sans Mono">B) wraps the text in two asterisks (and visually *bla* is</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Bitstream Vera Sans Mono">italic),</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Bitstream Vera Sans Mono; min-height: 11.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Bitstream Vera Sans Mono">Totally agree.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Shouldn't Markdown for email be using **bla** for bold (since that translates to <strong> AFAIK)?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And I'd argue that *bla* is visually bold, whereas _bla_ is visually italic. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><semi-rant></DIV><DIV>I must confess to not being a fan of the fact that *bla* and _bla_ are synonymous in Markdown, because visually they are not synonymous (*bla* carries more visual weight than _bla_). </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>[additional blathering deleted]</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But that's just me.</DIV><DIV></semi-rant></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>