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Just in case you weren't aware, if you surround a word by asterisks, you can emphasize a word without YELLING Eg *hello* there Becomes hello there
by skrebbel 5y ago
Just in case you weren't aware, if you surround a word by asterisks, you can emphasize a word without YELLING
Eg
*hello* there
Becomes
hello there
- WhitneyLand 5y agoThank you, for responding in a more productive way than I could have.
- 1-6 5y agoHonest question though, when is it ever appropriate to yell? Have you seen people ever do it? I think the all caps could be a useful tool for emphasis. Would I do it though? No.
- zarmin 5y agoSo! How's your first day on the internet going?
- ______-_-______ 5y agoI think yelling is appropriate if someone says they're thinking of building an Electron app. That's the only reason I can think of.
- Stratoscope 5y agoIt's never appropriate here. > Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put *asterisks* around it and it will get italicized. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Of course, uppercase is appropriate for an acronym or initialism that actually is spelled that way, such as SEO in the comment we're replying to.
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- SixDouble5321 5y agoOK, but how do I surround a word with asterisks as an example to others without emphasizing the word inside?
- systoll 5y agoA backslash before the asterisk makes it appear as an asterisk \*this\* becomes *this*. And before you ask, to show the backslash, you add another backslash. \\*this\\* becomes \*this\*
- skrebbel 5y agoI did not know you could backslash-escape asterisks (TIL! thanks!), so I prepended it with 4 spaces to make a code block.