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        8 months ago

        To be doubly clear, if you want to use a special character literally instead of figuratively, you can add a \. That’s an escape character. This includes \ itself, which if you look at the source on this comment you can see I’m typing twice.

        Another example: *not italicised*, which I write \*not italicised\*, so it doesn’t just come out not italicised.