From b161102897371a445f53fe32c39a796989452de7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Schember <john@nachtimwald.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:52:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] TXT Markdown Input: Change handling of _ to work mid word. _
 will need to be escaped as \_ to not be changed to a style.

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/markdown/markdown.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/markdown/markdown.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/markdown/markdown.py
index caadce2924..46ac21983c 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/markdown/markdown.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/markdown/markdown.py
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ Constants you might want to modify
 COMMAND_LINE_LOGGING_LEVEL = CRITICAL
 TAB_LENGTH = 4               # expand tabs to this many spaces
 ENABLE_ATTRIBUTES = True     # @id = xyz -> <... id="xyz">
-SMART_EMPHASIS = True        # this_or_that does not become this<i>or</i>that
+#SMART_EMPHASIS = True        # this_or_that does not become this<i>or</i>that
+SMART_EMPHASIS = False      # this_or_that needs to have _ escaped as \_.
 DEFAULT_OUTPUT_FORMAT = 'xhtml1'     # xhtml or html4 output
 HTML_REMOVED_TEXT = "[HTML_REMOVED]" # text used instead of HTML in safe mode
 BLOCK_LEVEL_ELEMENTS = re.compile("p|div|h[1-6]|blockquote|pre|table|dl|ol|ul"