**text* does not generate bold text in html

cderv · February 8, 2020, 8:59am

Hi,

can you give more details on your issue ? What did you use in your markdown code ?

Bookdown uses markdown syntax so Bold text is with __text__ or **text**

If that does not work, please provide more information of what you are doing.

To help us help you, preparing a reproducible example (reprex) illustrating your issue is a good idea. Please have a look at this guide, to see how to create one:

FAQ: How to do a minimal reproducible example ( reprex ) for beginners Guides & FAQs

A minimal reproducible example consists of the following items: A minimal dataset, necessary to reproduce the issue The minimal runnable code necessary to reproduce the issue, which can be run on the given dataset, and including the necessary information on the used packages. Let's quickly go over each one of these with examples: Minimal Dataset (Sample Data) You need to provide a data frame that is small enough to be (reasonably) pasted on a post, but big enough to reproduce your issue. Let's say, as an example, that you are working with the iris data frame head(iris) #> Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species #> 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.…