Italics not converted in markdown files

Hi. I’m using OO 5.13.1 Pro running on Sonoma 14.6.1. I was glad to see that OO would open a markdown file created in a text editor, but I was expecting OO to display formatting such as italics and bold. Did I miss a step? Thank you very much.

No you didn’t miss a step, OO doesn’t support that. There is non interoperability between markdown and OO. It can read it because it’s a text file though. You can send a request to Omni, but IMO nothing is likely to change, as the development has been very slow/frozen, even though it’s still a great app.