Emphasis with `_`

[Kyle Maxwell]

On 5/24/05, John Gruber <gruber at fedora.net> wrote:
> 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.

What I meant was, how often do folks use the underscores for marking
up (as opposed to using the asterisk pairs instead)?

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Kyle Maxwell
http://caffeinatedsecurity.com
[krmaxwell at gmail.com]