25 Oct
2006
25 Oct
'06
5:46 p.m.
* Allan Odgaard throw-away-1@macromates.com [2006-10-25 10:23]:
Yes, I was also surprised when I first read the Markdown syntax, because it says it was inspired by email de facto standards, where we have done *bold*, /italic/, and _underline_ for more than a decade,
Those three styles can also be viewed as just three different ways of emphasizing a word. When I read _this_ in an email I don't think of it differently than *that*.
Markdown works for me because I tend to use *stars* in email but I'd much rather have italic than bold text in HTML.