Emphasis with `_`

[John Gruber]

Kyle Maxwell <krmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote on 05/24/05 at 8:15 pm:

> In relation to your real point (sorry): I'm curious how frequent the
> use of underscores really is in the first place for such markup. Is it
> infrequent enough that such breakage doesn't actually present a
> problem?

I think it really varies wildly. For someone who is utterly
non-technical, writing, say, a weblog about their personal life,
I suspect they almost never use literal underscore characters.
    
For someone who writes technical material about file names, they
come up all the time.   

-J.G.