You just escape it with a backslash: my\_stock\_ticker is what you type to get my_stock_ticker The syntax seems to work for all markdown parsers. However, php markdown parsers use the numeric character reference _ instead of the actual character in it’s output.
See the original markdown specification (bold mine): The implication of the “one or more consecutive lines of text” rule is that Markdown supports “hard-wrapped” text paragraphs. This differs significantly from most other text-to-HTML formatters (including Movable Type’s “Convert Line Breaks” option) which translate every line break character in a paragraph into a <br /> tag. When you do want … Read more
Several sites provide reasonable cheat sheets or HOWTOs for tables and images. Top on my list are: Pandoc readme, specifically tables RStudio’s RMarkdown, more details in basics (including tables) and a rewrite of pandoc’s markdown. Pictures are very simple to use but do not offer the ability to adjust the image to fit the page (see Update, below). To adjust the image … Read more
See the original markdown specification (bold mine): The implication of the “one or more consecutive lines of text” rule is that Markdown supports “hard-wrapped” text paragraphs. This differs significantly from most other text-to-HTML formatters (including Movable Type’s “Convert Line Breaks” option) which translate every line break character in a paragraph into a <br /> tag. When you do want … Read more
See the original markdown specification (bold mine): The implication of the “one or more consecutive lines of text” rule is that Markdown supports “hard-wrapped” text paragraphs. This differs significantly from most other text-to-HTML formatters (including Movable Type’s “Convert Line Breaks” option) which translate every line break character in a paragraph into a <br /> tag. … Read more