You are right, there was a convention using that as well: I still have it in my muscle memory too (I always expect bold with a single asterisk). But I can't rem

You are right, there was a convention using that as well: I still have it in my muscle memory too (I always expect bold with a single asterisk). But I can't remember when and what that was. I still wouldn't go as far to say the MD or RST syntax is hard in any way (and really, asterisk which requires a Shift key is worse than double backticks).