pam.)</p>

<h3 id="backslash">Backslash Escapes</h3>

<p>Markdown allows you to use backslash escapes to generate literal
characters which would otherwise have special meaning in Markdown&apos;s
formatting syntax. For example, if you wanted to surround a word with
literal asterisks (instead of an HTML <code>&lt;em&gt;</code> tag), you can backslashes
before the asterisks, like this:</p>

<pre><code>\*literal asterisks\*
</code></pre>

<p>Markdown provides backslash escapes for the following characters:</p>
