Yeah, in markdown the \ basically means “stop formatting”. It’s nice for more complicated things like math problems but if you don’t know it can be annoying.
Interesting; I use Markdown all the time but have never thought about the backslash character. That’ll be tricky to remember since my Lemmy client doesn’t show the text field in a monospaced font (which would trigger “Markdown mode” in my brain).
Is this a Markdown problem? I have this as text replacement shortcut and it actually already contains the missing
\so that’s strange.Yeah, in markdown the
\basically means “stop formatting”. It’s nice for more complicated things like math problems but if you don’t know it can be annoying.Interesting; I use Markdown all the time but have never thought about the backslash character. That’ll be tricky to remember since my Lemmy client doesn’t show the text field in a monospaced font (which would trigger “Markdown mode” in my brain).