These should all get escaped: Backslash: \\ Backtick: \` Asterisk: \* Underscore: \_ Left brace: \{ Right brace: \} Left bracket: \[ Right bracket: \] Left paren: \( Right paren: \) Greater-than: \> Hash: \# Period: \. Bang: \! Plus: \+ Minus: \- These should not, because they occur within a code block: Backslash: \\ Backtick: \` Asterisk: \* Underscore: \_ Left brace: \{ Right brace: \} Left bracket: \[ Right bracket: \] Left paren: \( Right paren: \) Greater-than: \> Hash: \# Period: \. Bang: \! Plus: \+ Minus: \- Nor should these, which occur in code spans: Backslash: `\\` Backtick: `` \` `` Asterisk: `\*` Underscore: `\_` Left brace: `\{` Right brace: `\}` Left bracket: `\[` Right bracket: `\]` Left paren: `\(` Right paren: `\)` Greater-than: `\>` Hash: `\#` Period: `\.` Bang: `\!` Plus: `\+` Minus: `\-` These should get escaped, even though they're matching pairs for other Markdown constructs: \*asterisks\* \_underscores\_ \`backticks\` This is a code span with a literal backslash-backtick sequence: `` \` `` This is a tag with unescaped backticks <span attr='`ticks`'>bar</span>. This is a tag with backslashes <span attr='\\backslashes\\'>bar</span>.