Is there a way to supplement (or supplant) “markdown-it” formatting (it’s non-intuitive, difficult to use, and doesn’t easily [or at all] produce what the poster tries to do) with standard, proven, and well-known forum formatting codes (if we really want to do it manually)?
After all, there’s no real reason to re-invent the wheel . . .


	. . . okay, maybe for <-- that wheel.

(The above took me x5 longer to do just to find out it won’t come out the way I wanted it.)

[EDIT] BTW, going with the standard also means that the years and years of previous posts might/will no longer be “broken”, as they presently have become.