Bullet list confused with italicise formatting

endorphin

I see that if I type an asterix to italicise a phrase the end italics asterix is automatically added for our convenience. However this breaksdown when you’re trying to create a bullet list:

which is started by an asterix as the first character of the line as you then get the spurious end italics asterix automatically added >*

Naturally this also means you can’t use the asterix markdown to italicise the first word on a line:

as it will be taken to be a bulleted list instead *

Of course you can just use the
Italicise format icon in the toolbar instead to achieve this.

dtuxcomp

endorphin Never used asterix’s for bullet lists, I didn’t know they worked, I usually type them for italics/bold.

endorphin

dtuxcomp harrrrrry yes there are various ways to format your text. It’s just that using an asterix leads to this minor blip!

harrrrrry

Control-I is what I normally use. Or at least, what I used to normally use before Flarum broke it by implementing the same control-I code for italic and Indent 😮

Now it’s working again, I’ll be going back to it. And for mobile a single underscore before and after also works.

dtuxcomp

harrrrrry Not sure if it’s changed but you could use either underscore or asterix it didn’t care which as long as it was the right number 🙂