How to escape Markdown?

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Sometimes I want an underscore to be an underscore. I don’t want it to be the first tag in a markdown formatting instruction. How do I tell Notenik to ignore the character during markdown formatting?

In my situation I have a collection of helpful reminders for programme functions that I don’t use often. They often have underscore characters between words.

Example : SP_Type

In the Title field this is displayed as SPType
In the List & Outline it is displayed as SPType

When I use a blackslash in front of the underscore

In the Title field this is displayed as SP\Type
In the List & Outline it is displayed as SPType

The workaround that I’ve found is to use the CODE formatting. The drawback with this workaround is that the title is displayed as code ( red fixed width font ). Also, the List & Outline continue to omit the underscore.

In the Title field this is displayed as SP_Type
In the List & Outline it is displayed as SPType

Notenik 18.5.3 Available for Beta Testing on March 3rd, 2026
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Try the latest beta and let me know if this helps.

But let me also make a few clarifications, to try to eliminate some possible confusion:

  1. The Markdown parser used for title fields is not a full Markdown parser, but something that has been intentionally simplified to handle specific issues that may legitimately arise in titles;
  2. I believe the issues raised in this post are all related to the simplified parser used for the title field, not for the full-blown parser used on the body field;
  3. I’ve added some code to the simplified parser so that underlines embedded within words should now be left as underlines.

Let me know if this change does not sufficiently address the issue.

Thanks for the question!