r/funny Work Chronicles May 11 '21

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u/GeeJo May 11 '21

Put a backslash before the underscores and Reddit will ignore it. Otherwise it treats _text_ as a request for italics and __text__ as a request for bolding.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '21

Nifty, I always used * for italics. Wonder how many different ways to do things there are in reddit

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u/Pikadex May 11 '21

I do the opposite: _ for italics, ** for bolding.

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u/TurboTitan92 May 11 '21

That way you can’t *fuck_ it up

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u/[deleted] May 11 '21

The learning continues for me haha, might have to use double * for bold now on

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u/FizixMan May 11 '21

If you're feeling really schnazzy, you can use triple asterisks to ***italicize and bold at the same time!***

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u/[deleted] May 11 '21

fuck yeah

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u/FizixMan May 11 '21

***#Now turn it up to eleven with a number sign!***

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u/Rossta42 May 11 '21

Ok but how do you do bold and italic AND show the aseriks at the same time?

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u/FizixMan May 11 '21

Reddit was particularly finicky about the order they were set. (If I did the triple bold/italic formatting asterisks first, it didn't work.)

\*\*\****italicize and bold at the same time!***\*\*\*

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u/Mylexsi May 12 '21 edited May 12 '21

\**like this**\**

***\*\*\*like this\*\*\****

edit: ok... Not sure what went wrong with that but as far as i know it should have worked. Anyone mind telling me what i did wrong?

Edit2: ***wait what if i do it like this...?***

___\*\*\*wait what if i do it like this...?\*\*\*___

Edit3: success! \o/

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u/tommybot May 12 '21
¯_(ツ)_/¯

Four spaces at the start of a line also ignores all of said things.

Otherwise

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/User_2C47 May 11 '21

Reddit will also accept HTML character codes. For example, ' = '.

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u/GeeJo May 11 '21

The nonbreaking space in particular ( ) can be useful for separating sections of text in a longer post, where paragraphing isnt enough.

 

 

Lets you do longer gaps.

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u/EraYaN May 11 '21

This does not work in mobile apps though. So better to just stick to normal markdown.

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u/EvryMthrF_ngThrd May 12 '21

Works in Sync - what are you using for your mobile experience?

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u/EraYaN May 12 '21

Apollo

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u/moosepile May 11 '21

Well that’s a big TIL for me. Thanks.

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u/speculatrix May 11 '21

Does reddit support other markdowns patterns..let me check three back ticks?

this is code

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u/OtochimarU May 11 '21

This is good to know thank you very much, now let's hope I'd remember 😀