i type
`foo\`bar`
i expect to see:
foo`bar
instead, it looks like this: foo\bar`
i don’t know about the markdown specification, but i’m pretty confident that there should be a way to have single backticks in an inline code span? and the expected way does not work.
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Could this work for now?
``foo`bar``
Moved to help. From a quick search, I think this is expected behaviour.
Additional info: How do I escape a backtick ` within in-line code in Markdown? - Meta Stack Exchange
You can also escape codeblocks:
````
```
foobar
```
````
Results in:
```
foobar
```
Although in the original DaringFireball syntax linked from the page you linked, it specifically states that the backslash escaping should work:
Where? Can you point it out? I only see an agreement:
To include a literal backtick character within a code span, you can use multiple backticks as the opening and closing delimiters:
As the “literal character would otherwise have special meaning” (close the inline code block), sounds to me like it should escape it.
Currently, escaping backticks with \ only works in js scripts, not in Obsidian markdown.
But not in a code block. I quoted the part that said that.
Yes escaping a backtick works fine in Obsidian Markdown, but not in a code block.
The part you quoted says that you can use double backticks. It does not say you can’t escape them, unless I missed that.
“Markdown allows you to use backslash escapes to generate literal characters which would otherwise have special meaning in Markdown’s formatting syntax” sounds pretty clear and straightforward.
What I meant is markdown’s code block with single backtick. E.g.:
I cannot write
`[{}[()*"'`!1-9a-zA-ZÀ-ŰØ-űø-ÿ]`
unless I use 4 backtick-ed blocks as well.
While this topic may never cross my path, that daringfireball site is an awesome markdown reference. Cheers!
yes, thank you, for some reason i completely missed the possibility of inline code blocks being able to be quoted by multiple backticks. this works for most cases, however, i’m not sure how i could write a single backtick in a code block, without padding spaces or anything?
for context, this was my (other) original usecase; i’m drafting a description of a programming language, and i want to write down a single backtick in a single-character code block, because i use that every time i refer to a symbol of my programming language’s syntax
(i’m very stupid and i accidentally deleted the above post)
i forgot to mention, i read the stackexchange answer linked above, and from what i understand, `` ` `` should produce a single backtick. but it seems like obsidian does not strip the spaces around it SPECIFICALLY in live preview mode.
in reading mode, it produces a single backtick with no surrounding spaces, in source mode, it shows all 5 backticks. but in live preview mode, it does not strip the surrounding spaces.
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