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Well, that's nice about Notepad. I'm not sure I agree *something* is intuitive for italic and **something else** is intuitive for bold, or that this is intuiti
by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Well, that's nice about Notepad.
I'm not sure I agree *something* is intuitive for italic and **something else** is intuitive for bold, or that this is intuitively a block quote:
> #### The quarterly results look great!
>
> - Revenue was off the chart.
> - Profits were higher than ever.
>
> Everything is going according to *plan*.
- allarm 1y ago">" was the quotation symbol used by email clients for decades. See mutt, elm.
- DidYaWipe 1y agoYep, sure was.
- jen20 1y agoTypically, italic formatting indicates gentle emphasis, bold formatting indicates strong emphasis. Given this, * and * make sense. However, typically people use _ for gentle emphasis in Markdown, which makes _even more_ sense. Be careful not to confuse specification of rendering, As for - and >, they've been in use in plain text email clients for bulleted lists and quotations for 35 years now [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#:~:text=The%20convention%20of%20quoting%20was,%2D%2DJoe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#:~:text=The%20co...
- DidYaWipe 1y agoI'm not confusing anything. I'm saying that the example I provided is not intuitively recognizable as a block quote. And it gets worse when you have more nested decorations.