# Cannot make text bold in the middle of a word with asterisks

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-make-text-bold-in-the-middle-of-a-word-with-asterisks/23183>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Décembre 16, 2014, 4:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-make-text-bold-in-the-middle-of-a-word-with-asterisks/23183 "2014-12-16T16:11:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Post date:** [Décembre 16, 2014, 9:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-make-text-bold-in-the-middle-of-a-word-with-asterisks/23183/7 "2014-12-16T21:27:22Z")

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@codinghorror has blogged about markdown at [The Future of Markdown](http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-future-of-markdown/) - a worthwhile read.

I think discourse is encouraging people to join the discussions at [http://commonmark.org](http://commonmark.org) on improving markdown and making it more consistent for everyone, including discourse.

The commonmark spec [CommonMark Spec](http://spec.commonmark.org/0.13/) actually describes “intraword emphasis” which is what @JazzyJosh is complaining does not work in discourse now, so maybe this is indeed a bug.

Personally I don’t see intraword emphasis as much of a priority, and I also don’t see the toolbar in the editor as much more than a guide. I always end up manually tweaking the markdown it generates.. which I think is how it’s supposed to be used.

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