No way to escape characters in textile reader (<notextile> and == not supported)

[haunma]

The textile parser in Pandoc doesn't seem to support either of the textile methods for escaping text:

1. Surrounding text with ... pseudo-tags
2. Surrounding text with =='s; for example, ==wow== should render in the browser as wow, not bold text

This has some unpleasant consequences:

1. It is often impossible to mark up hyphenated text, because when two hyphens happen to be in close proximity (in the same paragraph?), the text in-between is interpreted as strikethrough.

2. Same problem with underscores. A sentence like "Connect the SPI_SIMO and SPI_SOMI pins together for loopback." is rendered with "SIMO and SPI" in italics.

3. LaTeX exponents in MathJax input are problematic, as textile wants to grab the characters in-between carets (^) and render it superscript.

[haunma]

Thanks! Must be some sort of record...