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It always bothered me that these ascii processors don't use /for italics/. It just looks visually like italics.
by michaelcampbell 5y ago
It always bothered me that these ascii processors don't use /for italics/. It just looks visually like italics.
- wenc 5y agoI think it's because it's too ambiguous. Forward slashes are very common in written language (similar to apostrophes/single quotes), so users would a lot of escaping to do.