How can I format blog article titles (the h1 tags)?

[zahlman]

Apparently this was possible many years ago, but I can't figure it out now.

I'm using Markdown sources, and if I have my metadata like:

<!--
.. title:  Some formatted title
-->

On the front page of the blog, where this post is listed, I want the word "formatted" to appear with whatever basic formatting (bold, italic and/or inline code). But nothing seems to work. I tried Markdown syntax, rST syntax and raw HTML; all of these get rendered literally instead.

Is it possible? How?

[Kwpolska]

Not possible by default, you’d need to customize your templates to disable the HTML escaping. Note that titles appear in many contexts (e.g. the <title> tag, RSS, metadata) where formatting does not work well, so you might want to consider custom formatted_title metadata that is displayed in the post heading, with the title being used elsewhere.