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maxloh • yesterday at 6:55 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Would you consider "fixing" the bold syntax on v3?

I have always believed that instead of **bold** and *italic*, it should be *bold* and _italic_.

That extra asterisk is a poor design decision in markdown. It really makes it inconvenient to edit Markdown on a phone or tablet.

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hnlmorg • yesterday at 10:55 PM

It always bugs me that _underscore_ is the syntax for italics rather than underline.

I’m sure back in the old days of READMEs, long before markdown was a thing, the conventions were this:

    /italics/

    _underline_

    *bold*
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iamgioh • yesterday at 10:14 PM

Not planned, CommonMark compliance is a strong trait of Quarkdown's identity