Bold inside the entries

[Staklarm]

I would like to add a bold style inside one of the entries below. For example I would like the "bold" word below to be in bold.
I have entered .protect = FALSE in the detailed_entries to prevent sanitising.

tribble(
  ~Year, ~Company, ~Position, ~Desc,
  '2017-2020', 'Github', 'CEO', 'I want to make this \textbf{bold}'
) %>% 
  detailed_entries(Company, 
                   Year,
                   Position,
                   Desc,
                   .protect = FALSE,
                   )

In the knitting of the above, I get

I want to make this extbfbold

If I use \\textbf{bold} the output becomes

I want to make this bold

but "bold" is not bolded but coloured in darker shade of grey.
(it is barely noticeable).

[Kelly Sovacool]

Similarly, attempting to use \textit{} in entries results in \textit{} getting converted to extit{} in the final PDF (i.e. the \t gets interpreted as a tab character. Escaping the backslash with another results in \textit{} getting printed literally. Here's an example with moderncv:

library(tibble)
tribble(
  ~ method, ~ result, 
  "underscore", " _C. difficile_", 
  "asterisk", " *C. difficile*", 
  "textit{}, one backslash", "\textit{C. difficile}",
  "textit{}, two backslashes", "\\textit{C. difficile}"
) %>% 
  detailed_entries(result, method)

Using .protect leads to an error:

library(tibble)
tribble(
  ~ method, ~ result, 
  "underscore", " _C. difficile_", 
  "asterisk", " *C. difficile*", 
  "textit{}, one backslash", "\textit{C. difficile}",
  "textit{}, two backslashes", "\\textit{C. difficile}"
) %>% 
  detailed_entries(result, method, .protect = FALSE)

Error:

! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text> 
                $
l.105 ...nderscore}{ _C. difficile_}{}{}{}{\empty}

Try to find the following text in vitae-italics-reprex.Rmd:
  ...nderscore}{ _C. difficile_}{}{}{}{\empty} 

EDIT:

I was able to get it to work with two backslashes & .protect = FALSE.

tribble(
  ~ method, ~ result, 
  "textit{}, two backslashes", "\\textit{C. difficile}"
) %>% 
  detailed_entries(result, method, .protect = FALSE)

[Nicole Brewer]

I have a similar problem, except I'm trying to add a \newline. There doesn't seem to be a workaround no matter what I select for .protect.

[ppaxisa]

I had the same problem for bold, italics, underline and as suggested by @kelly-sovacool, a \\ in the R character string did the trick for me.

[chitra baniya]

Hi,
I had this problem

tribble(
  ~Year, ~Type, ~Desc, 
  '2022', "AAAAA", "Carbonstock and regeneration status of community managed sal \textit{Shorea robusta} forests in VVV. Defended on November 2022.", 
) %>% 
  brief_entries(
    glue::glue("{Type}"),
    Year, 
    Desc
  )
Even after I did  .protect = FALSE it did not work for me.
*, **, _ all failed to me.
I wanna Shorea robusta in italics in my vitae. I am using Hindma::vitae