I’m speaking about Markdown formatting—on this site specifically.

  • LalSalaamComrade
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    3 days ago

    Yes, and no. Markdown specifications may have some common features, but they’re not the same everywhere. There are multiple specifications for horizontal rule (again, not fixed or agreed upon):

    • ***
    • ---
    • ___

    Interestingly, some Markdown parsers think that three dashes equals emdash.

    Similarly, there are multiple bold/italics specification:

    • *italics* and **bold**
    • _italics_ and __bold__ (italics not working inside single-line code-block, but it works outside of it normally with underscore, see? Most probably a missed test-case in the back-end)

    The word of Markdown parsers are a mess, some complying with CommonMark, some with GitHub Markdown, MarkDoc and even MDX.