diff --git a/src/stylemacro.jl b/src/stylemacro.jl
index b0305690..bbae63c6 100644
--- a/src/stylemacro.jl
+++ b/src/stylemacro.jl
@@ -105,8 +105,12 @@ macro styled_str(raw_content::String)
     interpolated::Ref{Bool} # whether any string interpolation occurs
     errors::Vector          # any errors raised during parsing
     end =#
-
     # Instead we'll just use a `NamedTuple`
+
+    # first undo the transforms of the parser (assuming the input was entered with single styled"" markers so this transform is unambiguously reversible and not as `@styled_str "."` or `styled"""."""`),
+    # since the `unescape_string` transforms will be a superset of those transforms
+    raw_content = Base.escape_raw_string(raw_content)
+    
     state = let content = unescape_string(raw_content, ('{', '}', '$', '\n', '\r'))
          (; content, bytes = Vector{UInt8}(content),
          s = Iterators.Stateful(pairs(content)),