diff --git a/HowItWorks.md b/HowItWorks.md
index 01b8378..f99d2dd 100644
--- a/HowItWorks.md
+++ b/HowItWorks.md
@@ -6,15 +6,19 @@ A (deterministic) state machine which performs lexical analysis of C.
 program could be used to convert a regular expression NFA syntax into this
 format).
 
-Each state begins with
-    ':<name> <color-name>'
+Each state begins with:
+
+    :<name> <color-name>
+
 \<color-name\> is the color used for characters eaten by the state
 (really a symbol for a user definable color).
 
 The first state defined is the initial state.
 
 Within a state, define transitions (jumps) to other states.  Each
-jump has the form: <character-list> <target-state> [<option>s]
+jump has the form:
+
+	<character-list> <target-state> [<option>s]
 
 There are three ways to specify <character-list>s, either * for any
 character not otherwise specified, & to match the character in the
diff --git a/md.jsf b/md.jsf
index 4b64de0..66b84a2 100644
--- a/md.jsf
+++ b/md.jsf
@@ -5,15 +5,16 @@
 # bold parsing is not that perfect since this works: **bold__
 
 =Idle
+=Escape bold
 =Bold bold
 
 :idle Idle
 	*		idle
-	"\\"		slash
+	"\\"		slash		recolor=-1
 	"*_"		maybe_bold1
 
 # do escaping of *_
-:slash Idle
+:slash Escape
 	*		idle
 	"*_"		idle