@carlrj @sukima @atomicpoet @fediversenews @quephird Again, leading and trailing underscores mean UNDERLINE*. I was so angry when I first heard about Markdown (from people’s glowing reports about how wonderful, simple and obvious it was). Just took existing conventions and scrambled them up for no reason.
* of course if you really wanted to underline ironically you’d follow each individual character with the ^H_ sequence.