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What's with the _ in your sentences?
by xeromal 3y ago
What's with the _ in your sentences?
- oidar 3y agoNot the GP, but that is a common way of bolding words between the underscores in markdown syntax.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoi think it's supposed to look like start and stop of underlines.
- wpietri 3y agoThey represent underlining.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- rictic 3y agoAscii convention to emphasize text, similar to doing the same thing with asterisks. Markdown later used this syntax for italics and bold, which popularized it further.