Describe the bug

While writing non-code markdown documentation I noticed that Doxygen has failed to render many *-symbols all over the text. Upon reducing this to a minimal testcase it turns out Doxygen fails with it meets this syntax: some text *(some remark about the text)*. As I always italize remarks, these asterixes are all over the place.

Expected behavior

In the opened browser window the (italic) part of text is italic.

To Reproduce (in terms of terminal commands)

λ cat mainpage.md
# Test

This is *(italic)*.
λ doxygen -g Doxyconfig


Configuration file 'Doxyconfig' created.

Now edit the configuration file and enter

  doxygen Doxyconfig

to generate the documentation for your project
λ sed -i 's/^USE_MDFILE_AS_MAINPAGE\s*=/USE_MDFILE_AS_MAINPAGE = mainpage.md/g' Doxyconfig
λ doxygen Doxyconfig
[…]
λ xdg-open html/index.html

Version

• doxygen version 1.10.0 (GIT-NOTFOUND), from the Archlnux repo
• lsb_release -a

  LSB Version:    n/a
  Distributor ID: Arch
  Description:    Arch Linux
  Release:        rolling
  Codename:       n/a