• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    You gotta put a \ before the asterisk to cancel out the mark-up, like this: \*

    (I used a second \ to cancel out the usual effect in the example. Fun fact, that cancellation is why the “shrug emoticon” sometimes loses an arm.)