Oct 13, 2018 · That's not part of markdown, just special characters, hence not a direct answer to the question here which clearly asks for a way using markdown.

Possible Duplicate: Markdown handles inline bold text (within a word) incorrectly I'm trying to use the following Markdown to make just the "Overflow" part of "StackOverflow Meta" bolded: Stack**

When asking a question, the "How to Format" information says: _italic_ or **bold** suggesting using underscores to italicize a word. Yet if one selects a word and clicks on the "I" in the edit...

Markdown-only hack The basic idea is to apply bold/italic formatting to backtick-enclosed string (instead of applying within the backticks), then put the code spans side by side so that they render as a single …

This was the most helpful answer. Two other things: i) same technique works in github flavoured markdown. and ii) to take regular code and add four spaces as the start of every line, in sublime text …

The markdown that Stack supports is pretty standard and standard markdown doesn't support underlining. Presumably this is because in HTML underlining is generally used as part of the …

Problem with markdown and Unicode characters in comments Mid-word Markdown like *long*word isn't allowed on Stack Exchange. But there seem to be a test to allow things like "*word*" to get " word " …

The problem isn't text being bold and italics, it's text trying to be bold inline, but ending up italic. Basically, emphasizing a single part of a word. In the question, for example, the goal would be …

Aug 7, 2022 · When editing a post (old or new editor likewise), there is a button to get formatting tips. The page about tables has the word "markdown" written in lower case: The same issue also appea...

From now on, intra-word emphasis is possible in our Markdown version. That means you can now write The "V" is for Model**View**Controller. That's un*fricking*believable. and it renders like this: The "V" …