# Feedback on our interactive Markdown tutorial

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/feedback-on-our-interactive-markdown-tutorial/37290>\
**Category:** Site feedback\
**Created:** [December 30, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feedback-on-our-interactive-markdown-tutorial/37290 "2015-12-30T23:48:02Z")\
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> [@mcwumbly](#):
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> Fair enough… But it still feels a little incongruous since I haven’t been taught yet at that point that asterisks and dashes are also used to create bullets in an unordered list.

I also ran into this and suggested a different mitigation tactic:

> **[CommonMark tutorial / help page feedback](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/commonmark-tutorial-help-page-feedback/1267/24?u=erlend_sh)**
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> Last exercise of “Emphasis”: Can you change the last line to use a plain \*? I did not understand this challenge. So far I’d been putting emphasis on things, so I thought this also had something to do with emphasis (having forgotten about the...

But the root of the problem is really, as you say, that we don’t expect escaping to come up at this point. At first I thought maybe escaping ought to have a section of its own, but on second thought that sounds like a bit much. But I do think the reader needs to be warned, like “heads up! small digression incoming”.

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