in markdown, is there a way to bold multiple punctuation marks (not words/numbers)?

To bold text, add two asterisks or underscores before and after a word or phrase. To bold the middle of a word for emphasis, add two asterisks without spaces around the letters.,To italicize text, add one asterisk or underscore before and after a word or phrase. To italicize the middle of a word for emphasis, add one asterisk without spaces around the letters.,To emphasize text with bold and italics at the same time, add three asterisks or underscores before and after a word or phrase. To bold and italicize the middle of a word for emphasis, add three asterisks without spaces around the letters.,Markdown applications don’t agree on how to handle underscores in the middle of a word. For compatibility, use asterisks to bold the middle of a word for emphasis.

> Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle.

> Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle. >
   >
   The Witch bade her clean the pots and kettles and sweep the floor and keep the fire fed with wood.

> Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle. >
   >>
   The Witch bade her clean the pots and kettles and sweep the floor and keep the fire fed with wood.

> # # # # The quarterly results look great!
   >
   >
   -Revenue was off the chart. >
   -Profits were higher than ever. >
   >
   * Everything * is going according to ** plan ** .

* This is the first list item.*Here 's the second list item.

I need to add another paragraph below the second list item.

   *And here 's the third list item.

* This is the first list item.*Here 's the second list item.

   >
   A blockquote would look great below the second list item.

   *And here 's the third list item.

The bold command is used to bold the text, and it is similar to the bold in Microsoft word and other text formatting documents. We can use the bold command for single words, multiple words, sentences, paragraphs, etc., depending on the formatting style for the document.,The two asterisks should appear at the beginning and at the end. Otherwise, the output may not be the desired bold text.,The Markdown command to bold the text is as follows:,In Markdown, any text inserted between the two double asterisks (**) appears as bold at the output.

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The purpose of living is to have a healthy, happy, and a cheerful life.

Markdown is a plaintext language, which is simple and easy to learn.

Make sure there is no space between the text and the indicators. , I tweaked the text so that the table is more narrow. This is needed because the popup window when getting text formatting help is small. , All words enclosed by the indicators need to be on the same line. , Thank you Randy for adding the note on potential confusion. I fixed the topic that is included. Now the example works properly in the included topic TWikiVariablesQuickStart as well as here in TextFormattingRules. Since the note is no longer needed I moved it to here:

1 st paragraph

2n d paragraph

-- - ++Sushi
-- - ++ + Maguro
-- - ++ + !!Not in TOC

* Bold *

_Italic_

__Bold italic__

= Fixed font =

The Atlassian editor supports markdown formatting for rich text fields. This makes it quick and easy to add headings, lists, code blocks, and more to your descriptions, comments, and other rich text fields. You can copy raw markdown into the Atlassian editor but you can't convert content from it into raw markdown.,This page relates to rich text formatting in the new Jira issue view. For information on formatting text in the old issue view, take a look at Editing and collaborating on issues.,Integrate your issues and development toolsLink repositories to a projectLink your project with OpsgenieProcess issues with smart commitsReference issues in your development workView development information for an issueView release information for an issue,Rather than remembering different shortcuts for different types of content, you can remember just one: the slash command. Type / to add code, emoji, images, and more to your rich text fields.

** text **

__text__

* text *

_text_

~~text~~

`text`

The word “Knit” was surrounded by two asterisks * in the R Markdown file and became bold in the PDF because that is how R Markdown sets bolding - to make something italics using a single asterisks like this. If you’re interested in more advanced formatting please see the book or cheat sheet linked earlier.,Other than the section headers, most of what you do in R Markdown is exactly the same as in Word. You can write text as you would normally and it will look exactly as you write it.,If you use a citation that isn’t in your .bib file, R Markdown will show a question mark, indicating that you made some mistake.,This chapter will only briefly introduce R Markdown, for a comprehensive guide please see this excellent book. For a cheat sheet on R Markdown see here.

library(knitr)
# Warning: package 'knitr'
was built under R version 4.1 .3
mtcars_small < -mtcars[1: 5, 1: 5]
kable(mtcars_small, caption = "This is an example table caption")