Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] docs/pandoc: Don't escape underscores in the middle of text

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Cooper writes ("[PATCH 1/4] docs/pandoc: Don't escape underscores in the 
middle of text"):
> Pandoc deliberately (and contrary to markdown) doesn't treat underscores in
> the middle of normal text as emphasis markers, as this is almost always the
> unhelpful interpretation.
> 
> For text which is emphasised using _, an underscore in the middle is
> interpreted, but the emphasis marker can be switched to * instead.
> 
> One problem case is where we use {} globbing with identifier names, as it
> counts as a word break.  Therefore, we do need to retain the escaped
> underscore immediately following a closing brace.

I'm happy to take your word for this.

Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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