Motivation

Found myself looking this up for a few minutes in order to make the second “file” in file=file italic. Simply wrapping the word with single asterisk does not work. Nor does escaping the asterisks (Yes, I tried stupid stuff). A nearly perfect method of solving it is: 

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`file=`*`file`*

but it resulted in the inline code being separated:
file=file

The solution

  • Usage of HTML: <code> </code>
    To get file=file,
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    <code>file=*file*</code>

Alternative method (full HTML)

To obtain the same result:

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<code> file=<i>file</i> </code>