markdown.js conflict with and mathjax when trying to interprete underscore.

[doosik71]

Mathjax plugin uses underscore to subscript string.

$$an = a{n-2} + a_{n-1}$$

But above Fibonacci formula does not correctly rendered as expected because markdown.js interpretes a pair of underscores as italic escape sequences before allowing them to be handled by mathjax plugin.

$$a\_n = a\_{n-2} + a\_{n-1}$$

Escaping all underscore with backslash as above does not solve this problem consistently because single underscore does not handled by markdown.js and is sent to mathjax which causes unintended results as below.

$$a\_n$$

If mathjax plugin is active, it would preferable any markdown special characters, including underscore character, between $$ not being handled by markdown.js ahead.

Thanks for your consideration.

[ndaman]

You can solve this easily by placing the entire equation inside back ticks

[doosik71]

Thanks for your answer. I learned that backtick is better then backslash. But other tools like pandoc, gitbook, visual studio code don't allow to use backticks. I have to maintain two different version. One for Reveal with backticks and the other for pandoc/gitbook/vscode without backtics. This is somewhat cumbersome. I wish markdown.js can handle math expression without backticks someday.