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Bold text conversion doesn't work across paragraph break

When there is a paragraph break between two bold codes (double asterisk), the asterisks are displayed and nothing is bolded.  Is it a bug, or intentional? Possibly related; not duplicate: Markdown ...
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Code highlighting and image placement breaks despite correct syntax

Signal Processing answer, normal vs preview: It's only toward the bottom of the post, yet it doesn't happen toward bottom of a much longer post. I confirmed it's also reproduced only with the ...
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How can I change the Markdown of a post that was created using the "Ask Wizard"? It's formatted using 'heading' formatting

Take a look at this (badly asked) question: When I try to implement the project it fails and I get this error I tried to change the Markdown of the question since the text is enlarged and in bold: ...
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Why has the parsing of the   in tables changed?

I am used to using the   HTML character to visually fill out the width and/or height of tables so they are used to their full potential: So that instead of this: I get this:                 ...
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Image not shown, image insertion markdown not interpreted

Tried to add an image to an answer of mine, but the image doesn't show in preview and it doesn't show after the question is saved either. Instead of the image, the un-interpreted markdown for the ...
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How to explain abbreviations without the disallowed <abbr> HTML tag?

How can tooltips be currently added to abbreviations as long as the <abbr> HTML tag is unsupported? Is there a Markdown equivalent or other workaround?
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How to get uniform markdown output for questions to be posted both on SE and Reddit?

I thought it would be as simple as starting on one and then copy and pasting to the latter; between SE <> Reddit, whichever was first. But I've found that it does not always turn out the same. ...
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Collapse all displaying twice in the Markdown help page

In the Markdown Editing help page, collapse all option is displaying twice. Steps to reproduce: Go to Markdown Editing help page click show more in bottom of the any section click expand all option ...
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Can CSS be used in posts?

I was reading that SE allows a number of HTML elements, so I'm wondering if they can also be styled using CSS? I also noticed Ctrl+M, for entering HTML+CSS+JS snippets. So, it made me further curious ...
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Header with inline image does not work in SE's Markdown

I decided to rewrite the whole question in order to address some points made by James and HackerKarma in the comments. Sometimes I forget the way this site works. :) I decided to come here and ask ...
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markdown to put a box around text in a comment

This comment displays with a box around some of the text. Firefox and Safari both display it this way. What is the markdown code to create such a box?
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Strikethrough in chat uses obsolete HTML strike element

So... in chat, when we use the strike-through text like this with ---this---, it is wrapped in the strike tags which are now obsolete. This is extremely irritating! Why not use s or del? (I would ...
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Is there a better way than <br> to force a newline? [duplicate]

When I want to start a new line, I've always used <br>. I'm wondering if there's a better way, however, that only uses Markdown. I'm aware that if you insert two line breaks, leaving a blank ...
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What is the correct formatting for specifying keys in posts?

Currently I use Ctrl+K keys for code formatting. Is there any other elegant style for Stack Overflow posts?
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how to post html in a comment [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to use formatting in comments? How do I post html/css/javascript in a comment so that it's formatted nicely and has a gray background? I'm trying to reply to a user and ...
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Greek letters in formulas?

I just encountered a question which had a formula in LaTeX syntax, like so: $$\frac{d\phi}{dt} = F(x, v)\ \ ,\ \ x = A\cos(\omega t + \phi) \ \ ,\ \ v = -A\omega\sin(\omega t + \phi)$$ LaTeX ...
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HTML in code blocks not escaped correctly [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I format my code blocks? Whenever I try to use HTML tags for a code example on stack overflow, the actual HTML is used on the page, instead of being escaped. To make ...
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underlining with `<u>` does not work in `<pre>` [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What HTML tags are allowed on Stack Exchange sites? Within the <pre>-environment the tag <u> has no visible effect (Firefox 7.0.1 but also earlier like 3.6.17). I ...
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> is closing HTML comments without a -​- delimiter

If I try to put something like this into a question or answer <!-- <br>s are important here --> the first > after the "br" is matched to the first < before the "!--", resulting in ...
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Editing via review delivers text area with improper escaped HTML tags

I clicked to edit a comment in review on the prime stackoverflow website. Original text I had planned to edit was not in a code block (as below for presentation purposes) and was similar to: $...
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Why and when is a semicolon added to a comment? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: strange character replacement on SO When I write a comment with an HTML <a> tag containing both href="" and title="" attributes, a semicolon is added after the ...
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<del> in code block

Is there any way to use <del> inside a formatted code block, or around the whole code block? I would like to emphesize that that code snippet is NOT the way to go, or use the traditional instead ...
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Is it OK to use HTML formatting in all my posts rather than Markdown?

Pretty much as the title says. Is there a reason I should favor Markdown over HTML in posts to Stack Exchange sites? EDIT: The only advantage of Markdown in comments is that less characters are used. ...
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How to add preformatted text to a post message

I'm already trying with the tag pre but doesn't working example: public static bool testFunction() { //some commented code return true; } The "return true" and other keywords must be blue
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I cannot use </script> in a question

Here I asked a question why </script> tag in js string is being validated I used following string < / s c r i p t > without spaces between characters. and it is validated as actual close tag ...
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1 answer
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How can I format a list inside a numbered list nicely

I posted on meta.stats a question with a bullet list in a numbered list. See the excerpt below (as most of you can't see that question yet). As you can see it looks currently horrible. Is there a way ...
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How does Stack Overflow handle this case? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What HTML tags are allowed on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User? I'm inserting the following script into my post, which is removed when shown. How did this happen? ...
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