Hello, I have chosen this option for the Project Information Window:
Resolve Markdown formatting for text tokens
So far I have figured out, how to let text appear as italics (by adding * before and after the text).
What is the syntax to let a number appear, like “4.” (without the quotes)?
Thank you for help.
There is a Markdown Cheatsheet that has all the options and a reference guide, that might help in learning that syntax
Fantastic, and thank you very much.
I would have never thought of the backward slash. The usual cheat sheets don’t show this option.
Thank you Juergen,
a very useful link. Still I did not find that backward slash there. Luckily we have @charles_piano 
If you create an Italic Character Style, you can use the new token syntax as an alternative.
Thank you Ben,
my main issue were the disappearing numbers, if “Resolve Markdown…” was checked.
But yes, being able to get a title or the aria beginning in italics is probably the most used case.
I think the checkbox is a little misleading. If I’m not mistaken, all it really does is let you use * and ** (or _ and __) for italic and bold – it doesn’t interpret headers or lists, or preformatted text.
The issue with the number followed by a period is that Markdown uses that to indicate a numbered list. Dorico won’t render the numbered list, but it also silently swallows the number and period rather than displaying them as is. A backslash is a common “escape” character in programming, instructing the interpreter to render a character literally rather than give it any special meaning. Escaping the period tells the Markdown interpreter that you really want a period, not the start of a list.
It’s not referenced in the cheat sheet, but it is explained here:
@LAE’s suggestion for backticks works because they indicate preformatted text in Markdown. Dorico doesn’t render the text in a monospace font, which is what this usually does in Markdown, but the backticks do prevent the interpreter from trying to create a list.
