Poll: How do you type italic text in Markdown?

2 pointsminimaxir3 comments

Interesting because my co-workers always ask me to change __bold__ to *bold* even though both are correct. I tend to switch between * and __ depending upon how my writing is structured.

Anyone else feel strongly one way of the other?

I feel strongly. _This_ is italics (strictly, underline) and *this* is bold.

Underline is used rarely any more, but if it's required, then _this_ is underlined, /this/ is italics, and *this* is bold.

While I feel very strongly about this, I cannot justify my feelings.

I asked the question because Prettier Markdown formatting will convert asterisks-to-underscores for italics, but keep asterisks for bold.

I'm guessing that's a CommonMark rule?

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