Is there any way to ignore underscore when rendering markdown?

[kaushalmodi]

@svat

Or is it that it has no awareness of math formulas at all?

Yep, Blackfriday doesn’t understand math formulas.

This has remained unmerged for years: Add Math support (MathJaX) to blackfriday.v2 by Vonng · Pull Request #412 · russross/blackfriday · GitHub.

My hope is that when Hugo upgrades to a more actively maintained Markdown parser ( Make Goldmark the new default markdown renderer · Issue #5963 · gohugoio/hugo · GitHub ), such issues could probably resolved in a more timely manner.