Well if the maintainer decides not to implement any text formatting then there are still options. The spec is designed to break, not bend, explicitly, and can a

Well if the maintainer decides not to implement any text formatting then there are still options. The spec is designed to break, not bend, explicitly, and can always be forked, or we can do what we have always done, _this sort of thing_ and its not ideal but it's really no big deal to use some type of markup style punctuation rather than actual formatting.