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It's not helped by the fact than HN markup is interpreting asterisks as requests for italics and backslashes as escape sequences...

• simias 8y ago
  The fact that HN still doesn't have a proper way to display code or mathematical formulas after all these years is a bit ridiculous. I guess by now it's part of the website's culture...
  • yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
    I'd prefer real markdown, but iirc 4 spaces of indentation does it? Foo*bar
    • saagarjha 8y ago
      Two: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
• rlue 8y ago
  Does anyone know where to find a guide to HN markup? I've exhausted my google-fu and have come up dry...
  • saagarjha 8y ago
    There's a short one here: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
    • rlue 8y ago
      Thanks!