On 12/31/14 4:14 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/31/2014 6:29 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2014-12-30 01:10, Walter Bright wrote:
It's not a hack. The macro system is designed to work that way. All
markup systems require some sort of escape mechanism. Including Markup.
You don't need to escape all the special symbols used in Markdown,
only in
certain place. In Markdown, if you start a line with a star, '*', it
will be
interpreted as the beginning of an unordered list. But if you write a
star in
the middle of text it will just output a star, as expected.
I know that Markdown formatting is context sensitive.
And what happens if you want to have a * at the beginning of the line of
output? And a | in a table entry? And so on for each of the context
sensitive things?
You use a backslash character, like in almost every programming
language, json, etc.
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#backslash
Compare \* to $(STAR)
