Suggestion: add an option to turn off Bold/Italic/Format stuff shortcuts for your question/answer.

Question

I think it would be nice if there was a checkbox while you're writing a question/answer to turn off all the shortcuts like **, *, >, - and all the rest. Sometimes I just want to write a word like and not have to post an image of the word I'm trying to use. This could also be helpful for someone wirting answer showing how to use those thingys.

Comments

You can use backslashes to "escape" those characters and make them show up instead of affecting formatting.

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https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/62257/how-do-i-use-formatting-e-g-links-images-headings? also includes examples of how to use code blocks, which also ignore the types of formatting you're talking about.

Answer 1

As per the formatting guide:

Escaping characters: You can disable Markdown formatting for a set of characters by placing a backslash \ before it. This is helpful if you don't want your writing to be interpreted as formatting. For example, **this text should be bold**, but it isn't because I escaped the asterisks.

This works for other types of formatting well:

- escaped list

> escaped quote