Ask HN/PG: Asterisks around something make it italics (except in indented code, apparently). In the above comment I had to remove a literal asterisk in the text because I couldn't figure out how to escape it. Backslash doesn't work, and two stars in a row doesn't work. Any ideas?
Update: Okay, so putting spaces around it ( * ) works. But the asterisk in question was inside parens without spaces.
Update: Okay, so putting spaces around it ( * ) works. But the asterisk in question was inside parens without spaces.