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### Displaying literal dollar signs

Since dollar signs trigger LaTeX rendering, text containing dollar amounts may accidentally render as math equations. To display literal dollar signs in your documentation (like prices, budgets, costs, or financial data), escape them with a backslash (`\`):
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📝 [vale] reported by reviewdog 🐶
[FernStyles.Adverbs] Remove 'accidentally' if it's not important to the meaning of the statement.


<div className="highlight-frame">
<div className="highlight-frame-content">
Without escaping: The product costs $10 and shipping is $5

With escaping: The product costs \$10 and shipping is \$5
</div>
</div>


```markdown Markdown wordWrap
Without escaping: The product costs $10 and shipping is $5
With escaping: The product costs \$10 and shipping is \$5
```

## Diagrams
Fern supports creating diagrams within your Markdown using [Mermaid](https://mermaid.js.org/). Mermaid offers a variety of diagrams, including flowcharts, entity-relationship models, and Gantt charts. To include a Mermaid diagram in your Markdown file, create a codeblock marked with `mermaid`.

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