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xigoi
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I prefer rST to Markdown
> IIRC, nesting of inline markup is generally not possible. It works in Markdown…
How do you write <i><b>x</b>y</i> in Markdown (without using HTML tags)?
remram
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_**x**y_ works fine, I tried on GitHub:
https://gist.github.com/remram44/8cd460aef9020aa53d538b82cb4...
xigoi
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Oops, I forgot that underscores are a thing :D
meribold
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Maybe Markdown doesn't allow arbitrary nesting of inline markup, but the combinations I actually wanted so far work. With reStructuredText, OTOH, I ran into limitations even though I didn't try to commit typographic atrocities.
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How do you write <i><b>x</b>y</i> in Markdown (without using HTML tags)?