What function or setting can I use to prevent this 501(c)(3) being converted to this 501©(3) in a MD file? I would rather not set something globally if possible, is there an inline function I can run?
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Another option is to use an HTML entity for the left or right parenthesis, for example:
(c)
Info about left parenthesis is at https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0028/index.htm
I do this kind of thing a lot in my writing 
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Thanks guys, I didn’t want to set it globally in the Black Friday config as I don’t know how it would affect my other pages but this worked for me:
\(c\)
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You can save yourself a character by using either of the following:
\(c)
(c\)
And another option I thought of: Use Hugo’s built-in Mmark renderer by changing the filename from foo.md to foo.mmark. This works because Mmark leaves (c) alone (and also Mmark supports include files, which I like but YMMV).
btw note that all these hacks could break if/when Hugo upgrades to a better Markdown parser.
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