You can have strong and empashized text.

You can also apply styles to verbatim .

But verbatim will _*preserve*_ them.

You can use _single *markers.

But you _need_ to escape pairs.

Even though you can escape _only one_ of the two.

If you have _more than two_ it's better to just _escape_ all of them.

Oh, this is valid for `verbatim as well.