On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 16:12:50 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
Ugh. Or why is _this_ italic?
I know! /This should be italic./ _This should be underlined._ How anyone could manage to mess those up is way beyond me. Some digging indicates it's a decision based on the fact that both are used for emphasis. This goes in the same drawer as '9 = 3, because they're both numbers'.
Of course, since underlined text is generally not a good idea, the solution to that specific problem is to simply not support underscores for emphasis. This leaves us with /italics/ being indicated by *asterisks*, which I find acceptable.
-- Biotronic
