Documentation display is broken

[LaurentTreguier]

Currently, documentation is not always displayed properly.
Some characters used in markdown are not escaped. For example, any * pair will be interpreted by VSCode and the text in between the two * will be shown in italic.
Some parts of the documentation use a $(UL something) syntax that are only translated to `something`, when it should be something else entirely (here with UL it should be a list with some LI elements inside).
Furthermore, something like $(UL text (parens) other text) will be replaced by the simple regex with `text (parens` other text) because it stops at the first closing parenthesis.

Long story short, the parsing done for documentation should be a lot more complex than it currently is (a couple of regex replacements and separation of text and code examples).