URLs with underscores

[Waite, Paul]

It's worth remembering that _this_ in Markdown doesn't italicise text, it places it within HTML emphasis tags. The traditional default display for emphasis may be italics, but <em> doesn't = italics. <i> does.

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:markdown-discuss-bounces at six.pairlist.net]On Behalf Of Aaron
Swartz
Sent: 07 July 2005 01:26
To: Discussion related to Markdown.
Subject: Re: URLs with underscores



>> Interestingly, whenever I've explained Markdown-like syntax to a

>> layperson, they don't understand why _this_ is italicised and not

>> underlined.

> 

> My explanation for that would be that underlining should never be

> used for anything other than hyperlinks.


My copy of Bringhurst is in storage, but this was true even before
hyperlinks were invented. So just as something underlined when
handwritten would be typeset as italics, something underlined in
Markdown will be HTMLized into italics.
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