Typing used _this is italics_ and *this is bold*
Some typewriters though don't have separate O 0, I 1 and all only have ' and ", it is annoying we don't have separate symbols for dialogue, quote, emphasis, apostrophe for missing letter and possessive. Some languages do change spelling or stick in an h after the first letter for "of <something>". Interestingly at one stage Greek had no H and used a ' at the start of words that started with an H. Upper and Lower case is also a curious recent invention for Western languages. The alphabet for logical English sponsored by G. Bernard Shaw has no uppercase, it prefixes with a dot.
That and some other markups do work in plain text files imported to most wordprocessors. It's been expanded to ASCIIdoc, which I'd as much want to use as direct HTML or wiki markup.
I'd maybe use LaTex if I was doing serious sciency stuff.
I think the Interobang single character looks too busy at small sizes compared to ?! which people will readily recognise. But likely other languages than English need a different solution.
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