title: Passing italics through fig.scap (table of figures) or fig.cap (captions) in Rmarkdown
body: <p>I asked and answered my own question, so I'll post it here in case it helps</p>
  <p>If you want a table of figures in Rmarkdown or Bookdown, and you want to use Markdown formatting you cannot put it within the Rmarkdown chunk itself:</p>
  <pre><code>```{r chunk1,fig.scap=&quot;my *short* caption&quot;}
  
  knitr::include_graphics(&quot;some_figure.png&quot;)
  ```
  </code></pre>