I do not have much experience in awk, but after reading Solene's and your code, I am curious about why < > are escaped with \ ? In your m.awk, I also noticed t

I do not have much experience in awk, but after reading Solene's and your code, I am curious about why < > are escaped with \ ? In your m.awk, I also noticed that the markdown formattings (bold, inline and links) are not turned off in code blocks.