[altairprime]

And, to quote non-code text, you have to do it manually; there is no formatting operator and the code-indent method won’t work (unreadable at many browser widths). I tend to do it like so:

> *Paragraph one.*

> *Paragraph two. Etc.*

Which produces the desired effect:

> Paragraph ‘one’.

> Paragraph two.

(To use a * in a paragraph that’s italic-wrapped, backslash it.)