[xigoi]

> IIRC, nesting of inline markup is generally not possible. It works in Markdown…

How do you write <i><b>x</b>y</i> in Markdown (without using HTML tags)?

[remram]

_**x**y_ works fine, I tried on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/remram44/8cd460aef9020aa53d538b82cb4...

[xigoi]

Oops, I forgot that underscores are a thing :D

[meribold]

Maybe Markdown doesn't allow arbitrary nesting of inline markup, but the combinations I actually wanted so far work. With reStructuredText, OTOH, I ran into limitations even though I didn't try to commit typographic atrocities.