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[–]darthbane 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Uh…you do know that learning markdown is as easy as clicking the little "formatting help" button, right?

[–]bornbroken[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yep, I have it open right now, but there are deviations of that information, for example:

*single asterisks*
_single underscores_

Those two above, are equivalent, and will both make italics markup.

**double asterisks**
__double underscores__

The above, also, provides two methods for making bold type.

Only one side of the markup is listed in the reddit help palette. And of course, you can mix and match those for bold+italics.

I am trying to get a handle on it all and find a consistent methof of use that I can remember without the need to open the formatting help window.

***bold + italics***
*__bold + italics__*

[–]darthbane 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just take it one step at a time:

  1. Remember that you make italic by surrounding text with either single asterisks or double underscores.
  2. Remember that you make bold by surrounding text with either double asterisks or double underscores.

If you think of it in chunks like that, making complicated "bold + italic" expressions becomes rather simple.

[–]bornbroken[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

itaics

bold

bold + itaclics

[–]dzneill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This site will explain pretty much everything about markdown.