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
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
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.
_ 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