Relating to this issue I just wanted to post a quick wishlist item and ask, if it could be made possible in the future to use (at least certain) styles for markup in footnotes, particularly to define a section of a footnote (or the whole footnote) to be treated as raw markup when compiled. Or if you used styles (instead of rich text formatting) to define bold or italics or underlined text, etc. Just basic stuff, maybe?
The problem appeared when using better bibtex bibkeys for zotero that contain “_”, which will be compiled to \_ in markdown and then, after pandocs conversion of the markdown to word, could not be read by the word zotero plugin as bibkey.
I was very lucky that @nontroppo wrote me a script preventing this from happening, but if I understood correctly, I could have used styles for that if they only worked in footnotes.
I know that footnotes should have only limited styling options by design (at least I found this as prvious answers to similar wishes), yet for some problems there might be a good use like in this case?