Timeline for Why do people edit in (usually pointless) bold and italics to questions?
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 14:35 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 31, 2014 at 23:00 | vote | accept | Kaz Wolfe | ||
| Aug 30, 2014 at 9:34 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan |
@Whaaaaaat You have to use some HTML, to apply mid-code formatting. (Limited HTML is supported in posts but not comments, which was why I wasn't able to show its appearance in my comment.) For inline code, replace markdown backticks (`) with <code> and </code>--then * and ** will format as italics and bold. For code blocks, use <pre><code> and </code></pre> around the whole block instead of indenting each line 4 spaces; then HTML formatting tags like <em>/</em>, <strong>/</strong>, <i>/</i>, and <b>/</b> tags will work.
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| Aug 30, 2014 at 9:23 | comment | added | Kaz Wolfe | @EliahKagan How do you do that mid-code? I was never able to do that. | |
| Aug 30, 2014 at 9:17 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan |
@Tim Italicizing, bolding, or both on code is useful as an annotation to indicate it's a metasyntactic variable or otherwise a particularly likely candidate for substitution. For example, in this post, I italicized "file" and "command" when they stood for something other than themselves. I believe this sometimes particularly improves readability and can even decrease technical ambiguity. When I say an error will be like bash: file: Is a directory and I italicize just file (I can't do that in this comment, but I can in a post), I really think that helps.
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| Aug 30, 2014 at 9:07 | history | edited | Jacob Vlijm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 30, 2014 at 9:05 | comment | added | Tim | Yes, that's fine but just adding italics to code like I did ^^... rage... | |
| Aug 30, 2014 at 9:02 | comment | added | Kaz Wolfe | @Tim I used it very rarely, but only if it was part of an italicized paragraph. | |
| Aug 30, 2014 at 9:00 | comment | added | Tim |
I also hate the italics code
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| Aug 30, 2014 at 9:00 | comment | added | Kaz Wolfe | I agree that if it's for very important and easy-to-miss stuff, bolding is very very good. But not everyone knows or cares about what kind of computer you use. | |
| Aug 30, 2014 at 8:59 | history | answered | Jacob Vlijm | CC BY-SA 3.0 |