Whitespace and emphasis

[John Gruber]

Jan Erik Moström <lists at mostrom.pp.se> wrote on 11/29/05 at 5:15 PM:


> By tradition, both *this* and _this_ has been used in emails and

> according to the docs he tried to make it as close to email that he

> could.


Right. If Markdown were just for me, I'd have only supported
asterisks, and underscores wouldn't have been used. But research
indicated that nearly as many people use _this_ as *this*, which
made them both worth supporting.

-J.G.