[3.12] gh-110383: Italicize variable name (GH-111206) (#111207)

Co-authored-by: Nick <Nikki1993@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: miss-islington

Doc/howto/regex.rst

@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ You can omit either *m* or *n*; in that case, a reasonable value is assumed for
 the missing value.  Omitting *m* is interpreted as a lower limit of 0, while
 omitting *n* results in an upper bound of infinity.
 
-The simplest case ``{m}`` matches the preceding item exactly **m** times.
+The simplest case ``{m}`` matches the preceding item exactly *m* times.
 For example, ``a/{2}b`` will only match ``'a//b'``.
 
 Readers of a reductionist bent may notice that the three other quantifiers can