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That's completely true, but emphasis is normally rendered by italics too. (See for example the <em> element in HTML with the default CSS.) Emphasis is the seman
by kccqzy 2y ago
That's completely true, but emphasis is normally rendered by italics too. (See for example the <em> element in HTML with the default CSS.) Emphasis is the semantic, italics is the presentation. From this perspective both underscores and single asterisks should render into italics.
- JoshTriplett 2y ago> emphasis is normally rendered by italics too I wasn't disagreeing with that; edited my comment to be clear. Asterisks are emphasis; emphasis is typically italics. I do think that underscores should have been underlining, but unfortunately that's not what Markdown chose.