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by lewisjoe 1080 days ago
We are implementing markdown support in Zoho Writer (https://zoho.com/writer) and I can confirm how difficult it is to handle bold and italics.

It definitely is a weird choice to use *s for both bold and italics. Parsers could be implemented much easier, if both had different delimiters as mentioned in the post.