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2009 Jun 21
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Query about emphasis
...kdown/syntax#philosophy):
Markdown?s syntax is comprised entirely of punctuation characters, which
punctuation characters have been carefully chosen so as to *look like what
they mean*.
It seems to me that *writers* who are not programmers are thinking in terms
of italic, bold, underlined, or stuckout text and so on. A *writer* is not
thinking about abstract concepts like <em> or <strong> or any HTML at all.
During a process of "marking down" some informally structured text files in
order to get them into HTML, I have encountered the following "syntax" :
He...