First draft of full syntax docs

[John Gruber]

daniel <ghost at waferbaby.com> wrote on 03/12/04 at 4:53p:

> under lists:
> 
> "In other words, a number-period-space sequence at the beginning of a 
> line. To avoid this, you can backslash-escape the period:
> 1986. What a great season."
> 
> i don't see a backslash, though.

Good catch. Fixed.

It's the old "you have to double-backslash literal backslashes"
thing; like telling Perl or PHP to print a backslash followed by the
letter 'n':

    print "\\n";

Thanks,

-J.G.