In a question/answer, the Bold tags are 2x asterisks:
**Bold**
And Italics is a single asterisk:
*Italics*
However, in the comment fields, why are they different?
Sorry. I previously had single asterisks below. Infact, it should have been double.
Double asterisk for Bold:
**Bold**
And underscore for Italics.
_Italics_
I sometimes get confused and commenting and/or writing a question/answer.
EDIT: So, I got this info from the 'help' buttons. In the question/answer help icon, it automatically used asterisks only.
However, in the 'help' of the comments, it states to use underscore:
I have just always followed the 'help' buttons.
*like this*
and the second is**like this**
. Not sure what you're talking about here. \$\endgroup\$**Bold**
and_italics_
written thusly are mini-markdown convention. Having it also work*this way*
for italics is just a bonus, I think. \$\endgroup\$