[Doxygen-users] Doxygen tag in markdown file code span messes up output

[Christoph L. <chr...@li...>]

I'm working on a .md page that describes coding style for a project; 
when I place the following in the .md file, Doxygen does not behave as 
expected:

~~~~~~~~
Some Doxygen syntax features require particular Doxygen configuration 
settings,
or even externaltools. The following can be freely used:

   - Automatic brief descriptions (`JAVADOC_AUTOBRIEF=YES`). Please 
avoid using
     the `@brief` tag.
   - Markdown (`MARKDOWN_SUPPORT= YES`). Please avoid tags wherever 
markdown is
     easier to read (e.g.,use `_foo_` instead of `@e foo` for emphasis).
   - (etc.)
~~~~~~~~

What I would expect:
Doxygen should not interpret any of the tags inside backtick code spans, 
and instead render them verbatim in the output.

What happens:
Doxygen interprets the character sequence "@brief` tag." as specifying a 
brief description for the page, and strips it from the output. 
Furthermore, the code span is interpreted as still being open, messing 
up all the following text.

Note that if I replace "@brief" with any other tag (or at least any I 
did test), it is rendered verbatim as expected.

- Is this a known problem?

- Is there any sane workaround to get this particular tag to be rendered 
verbatim as in-line code?