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Markdown is not esoteric. If anything, it's as natural as you can get. *Asterisks* to bold and _underscores_ to emphasize come naturally. The one thing you hav
by julianlam 6y ago
Markdown is not esoteric. If anything, it's as natural as you can get. *Asterisks* to bold and _underscores_ to emphasize come naturally.
The one thing you have to learn is the bracket notation for anchors, and that's because it's needed to render the html anchor. Nothing stops you from pasting a plain link (and a lot of markdown parsers turn it into an anchor for you even)
- mottosso 6y agoExcept *asterisks* doesn't **bold**, it _emphasizes_. :) Edit: Aha! I think I see what happened here, HN formatting. :)
- webmaven 6y ago> Edit: Aha! I think I see what happened here, HN formatting. :) I may be in the minority here, but I wish HN supported just a bit more formatting (such as bolding/strong) than it currently does. I also wish the current formatting was a bit more aggressive in recovering from obvious errors, for example emphasis should probably be closed at the end of a block like a paragraph, rather than making the whole rest of a comment emphasized when someone forgets to add or accidentally deletes a closing asterisk.
- julianlam 6y agoHah! Yes, HN seems to have eaten a pair of asterisks. In any case, double-asterisks is bold in my mind, even if Slack seems to think otherwise.