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• f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  _ It works on my end (without leading and trailing spaces) _ -> It works on my end (without leading and trailing spaces)

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  • exu@feditown.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Looks like it’s specifically when an underscore follows a normal letter instead of whitespace. Not sure if that’s as intended by the markdown spec, incorrect in Voyager or unspecifed

    With underscores:

    normal_italics_ normal italics

    With asterisks:

    normalitalics normal italics

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Looks like it’s specifically when an underscore follows a normal letter instead of whitespace. Not sure if that’s as intended by the markdown spec, incorrect in Voyager or unspecifed

      That’s almost certainly intended behavior, otherwise any underscore would trigger formatting (much like the asterisk does instead of allowing snake_case_naming

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      • black0ut@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The markdown specification recommends using asterisks specifically for that. It is not exactly intended, but left to the interpreter. Most markdown interpreters leave the underscores intact if they’re inside a word.

        https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#italic-best-practices

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can escape formatting characters with a leading backslash.

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • exu@feditown.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I know. Underscores also work though for italics

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That may be a lemmy specific way to markdown

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      • exu@feditown.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s not Lemmy specific

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    • poolcritter@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Underscores do not work inside a word (so my_long_identifier won’t accidentally become mylongidentifier, but _foo_ will become foo)

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• moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The italics show up for me fine, so they’re getting through!

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  • exu@feditown.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I changed it in the edit

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    • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah, gotcha.

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