I remember a post from some time ago, where someone reported that this kind of formatting only worked for filled paragraphs under 3 lines long. Sadly I cannot find said post now. Is this the same for you?
I don't know if this a bug or not. On 2014-02-21 16:31 Martin Leduc wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't know whether it is a bug, an unimplemented feature or simply > that I use it wrongly, but I can't emphasize text (with // ** or _ _) > within a filled paragraph. Moreover, sometime I get it to work but I'm > not sure how to reproduce. > > Thanks, > Martin > Regards, -- Alexander Baier