Recap syntax ideas for Markdown?

[John Gruber]

A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis at gmx.de> wrote on 04/20/05 at 6:41 pm:

> Thinking about it, it might be a solution to use a backslash
> here. `x^(a + b)` comes out as `x<sup>(a + b)</sup>`, but
> `x^\(a + b)` comes out as `x<sup>a + b</sup>`.

No, because that's a totally different use for backslashes than what
Markdown supports now. The rule now means "treat the next character
after the backslash as a literal". That's all it will ever mean.

-J.G.