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Re:Why I Prefer RST to Markdown by deathanatos on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @10:25PM (#41125647)
Way back in the day when I was on IRC, I usually read them as,

  *bold*
  /italics/
  _underline_
… which would have made sense, if you stop to think about the characters. (But of course humans are wibbly-wobbly in what they'll choose, so context is context.) Alas, bold is now different in everything, it seems, and I can never remember which is which, aside from Discord which gives visual feedback.
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Re:Why I Prefer RST to Markdown by account42 on Friday August 02, 2024 @05:34AM (#41137338)
And even HTML was not safe because <b> and <i> were too easy so now we have <strong> and <em> because somehow those are more meaningful.
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Re:Why I Prefer RST to Markdown by collinmanderson on Saturday August 03, 2024 @02:04PM (#41148149)
The worst part of the <i> to <em> migration is now <em> often gets used for book titles, which is completely wrong. Book titles aren’t emphasized, they’re italicized.

If someone hits control+I, or an italics button, it should use <i> tags, not <em>.

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