Question

How to manage this? The Preview shown is different from the Output. there are editing symbols (ie: ' * ' - stars used for bold,italics..) seen after posting

This is the preview while am posting answer

But this is the Output
https://socratic.org/s/aJLExKNX

Answer 1

The error is caused by the consecutive `"*"` characters.

Explanation:

As a rule of thumb, try to avoid using multiple `"*"` characters one after the other and with spaces in between groups because it will cause a formatting error.

In this particular case, you left a space before the last `"*"` character added to the "For the sake of simplicity..." part. This works in the preview, but it does not carry over once you post the answer.

Moreover, having three consecutive `"*"` characters can cause this error sometimes--I don't exactly how that works, but I know that it does happen.

So if you want to write bold + italic text, you should use the underscore character instead `->` see this answer for more info on how that works.

You can also use a combination of `"_"` and `"*"` characters to get bold + italic text.

For example, you can have

• Italic text with some bold text mixed in
• Bold text with some italic text mixed in