Hang on I noticed something funny…

2\2 = 4*

Huh! What I wrote was *2\*2 = 4*

So in the markdown posting format, you cant escape the closing asterisk for italics, just the opening, as a consequence I dont think its possible to italicize an asterisk…

@Sofsh could always fall back to html <i>

@adam ah, true! Really I was just caught off guard since I sometimes only escape the closing asterisk out of brevity when I forget to escape the first on Discord