On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Fred B wrote:

Two other things I dislike about using Markdown for email is that

bold (⌘B) wraps the text in two asterisks (and visually *bla* is

italic),

Totally agree.

Shouldn't Markdown for email be using **bla** for bold (since that translates to <strong> AFAIK)?

And I'd argue that *bla* is visually bold, whereas _bla_ is visually italic.

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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_).

[additional blathering deleted]

But that's just me.

</semi-rant>