Get underlined text with Markdown

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I am using BlueCloth as a Markdown library for Ruby  and I can t find any syntax for getting a text underlined  What is it

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Markdown doesn t have a defined syntax to underline text   I guess this is because underlined text is hard to read  and that it s usually used for hyperlinks

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The simple  lt u gt some text lt  u gt  should work for you

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Both  lt ins gt text lt  ins gt  and  lt span style  quot text-decoration underline quot  gt text lt  span gt  work perfectly in Joplin  although I agree with  nfm that underlined text looks like a link and can be misleading in Markdown

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In Jupyter Notebooks you can use Markdown in the following way for underlined text  This is similar to HTML5    lt u gt  and  lt  u gt     lt u gt Underlined Words Here lt  u gt

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You can wrote    bold and italic    and re-style it to underlined text  like this   strong gt em  em gt strong  b gt i  i gt b       font-style normal      font-weight normal      text-decoration underline

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In GitHub markdown  lt ins gt text lt  ins gt works just fine

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Another reason is that  lt u gt  tags are deprecated in XHTML and HTML5  so it would need to produce something like  lt span style  text-decoration underline  gt this lt  span gt    IMHO  if  lt u gt  is deprecated  so should be  lt b gt  and  lt i gt    Note that Markdown produces  lt strong gt  and  lt em gt  instead of  lt b gt  and  lt i gt   respectively  which explains the purpose of the text therein instead of its formatting  Formatting should be handled by stylesheets   Update  The  lt u gt  element is no longer deprecated in HTML5

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