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No, but it does use: * for italics, which sometimes causes a comment to go haywire because someone uses it to reference a footnote or otherwise drops it i

by OJFord 3y ago

No, but it does use: * for italics, which sometimes causes a comment to go haywire because someone uses it to reference a footnote or otherwise drops it in mid-sentence, with a matching closing one, not intending italics. (Up-thread I think it probably was like that when they commented, but has since been fixed.)

wruza 3y ago
Btw, you can now(?) escape * in a paragraph with \*.
- OJFord 3y ago
  Yes, it's also automatic in some cases - originally my comment had an attempt at a joke example of it, but it was caught and didn't work. It was definitely improved relatively recently.