Cannot escape underscore character (convertation from markdown to dokuwiki)

[vlad2m]

Hello everyone,

Original discussion of an issue - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/pandoc-discuss/n0ZejyROrUU/WReIz9bKAwAJ

Description
I couldn't escape underscore and it turned "$RPM_ROOT_BUILD" into "$RPM ROOT BUILD" (without spaces, I don't know how to show it without them, sorry), even if I added backslash in front of underscore (see below).

Input (markdown file's content):

And, finally, you need to ignore the files from that packages that were installed to $RPM\_BUILD\_ROOT - add on the top of spec file:

Converting command:

pandoc -f markdown -t dokuwiki Test.mkd -o Test

Output (dokuwiki):

And, finally, you need to ignore the files from that packages that were installed to  $RPM_BUILD_ROOT - add on the top of spec file:

So, underscore character is not escaped..

Versions:

>ver
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

>pandoc -v
pandoc 1.15.0.6

[jgm]

According to this page, wrapping a string between single underscore characters should not make it italic. Confirmed in the dokuwiki playground. As far as I can see, single underscores don't need to be escaped. Can you clarify?

[vlad2m]

Hello, John,
As far as I remember, first I tried "non-escaped" way, then tried to escape the underscore and only after that I decided to report about it. But let me try it at my workplace tomorrow.Thank you for response.

[jgm]

Closing since there's no follow-up and I can't see any problem. If you think this should not be closed, feel free to comment here.