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Edit: apparently Voyager doesn't do underscores for italic?
markdown uses asterisks for italics.
2 asterisks is bold
3 is italic and bold
I know. Underscores also work though for italics
Underscores do not work inside a word (so my_long_identifier won't accidentally become mylongidentifier, but _foo_ will become foo)
That may be a lemmy specific way to markdown
It's not Lemmy specific
Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#italic
Markdown has a core spec and then endless flavours. I assume what they're saying Lemmy chose to not use underscore markup.
This used to be a trouble back in the reddit days as well. It depends entirely on what platform you're using to access the content.
Boost for example does seem to allow underscores however when I check via the web it doesn't work.
_ It works on my end (without leading and trailing spaces) _ -> It works on my end (without leading and trailing spaces)
You can escape formatting characters with a leading backslash.
Looks like it's specifically when an underscore follows a normal letter instead of whitespace. Not sure if that's as intended by the markdown spec, incorrect in Voyager or unspecifed
With underscores:
normal_italics_ normal italics
With asterisks:
normalitalics normal italics
That's almost certainly intended behavior, otherwise any underscore would trigger formatting (much like the asterisk does instead of allowing snake_case_naming
The markdown specification recommends using asterisks specifically for that. It is not exactly intended, but left to the interpreter. Most markdown interpreters leave the underscores intact if they're inside a word.
https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#italic-best-practices
The italics show up for me fine, so they're getting through!
I changed it in the edit
Ah, gotcha.