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In polite society, underlined text is not a thing. I'm with you wrt slash for italics, but sometimes you also just want to write a slash... how would you do th
by tasuki 2y ago
In polite society, underlined text is not a thing.
I'm with you wrt slash for italics, but sometimes you also just want to write a slash... how would you do that? Underscores are good because you never really want to display them...
- indoordin0saur 2y agoIf you're documenting technical things (what markdown is most commonly used for) underscores need to be displayed all the time because they are common in all sorts of resource and variable names.
- j1elo 2y agoJust adding that for technical terms that include underscores, I am on the camp that most if not all of the times they should also be marked as such (as a technical identifier of something) with `backquotes`. Which solves the issue of having unexpected formatting. I agree, however, than my original naive idea of using slashes was not so good. Obviously some practice gives a better understanding of the problem, and nowadays I see it differently. The slash is too common in written language; it's actually a good thing that unintended italics are not introduced after writing some trivial slashed term in a text, such as "he/him".
- indoordin0saur 2y agoAgree on the backquotes
- desas 2y agoUse / for a slash and use // for //italics// and make *bold* match.