Markdown
allows you to use backslash to generate literal characters that possesses
special meaning in Markdown
syntax.
Markdown
provides backslash escapes for the following characters:
- \ blackslash
- ` backtick
- * asterisk
- _ underscore
- {} curly braces
- [] square brackets
- () parentheses
- # hash mark
- + push sign
- - minus sign (hyphen)
- . dot
- ! exclamation mark