[TxMt] Mail language scope

[Grant Hollingworth]

* Allan Odgaard <throw-away-1 at 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.