the trojan fan (media.piefed.social)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
 
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[–] 3 points 5 days ago (7 children)

markdown uses asterisks for italics.
2 asterisks is bold
3 is italic and bold

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    I know. Underscores also work though for italics

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  • [–] 0 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    That may be a lemmy specific way to markdown

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    Markdown has a core spec and then endless flavours. I assume what they're saying Lemmy chose to not use underscore markup.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    This used to be a trouble back in the reddit days as well. It depends entirely on what platform you're using to access the content.

    Boost for example does seem to allow underscores however when I check via the web it doesn't work.

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