On 25. Oct 2006, at 18:11, Jeremy Amos wrote:
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)?
It does, I meant two asterisks on each side.
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.