25 Oct
2006
25 Oct
'06
5:15 p.m.
On Oct 25, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 25. Oct 2006, at 18:11, Jeremy Amos wrote:
And I'd argue that *bla* is visually bold, whereas _bla_ is visually italic.
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, and then Markdown not only treats * and _ the same, it allows __bold__ and *italic*, that’s just weird.
Good to know I'm not the only one who thinks that. (though I've always used _italic_, since underlining AFAIK is used in manuscripts to indicate italics).