Escaping '<'

[Andy Fragen]

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Thanks John.

-- 
Andy Fragen

On Thu, Jan 6, 2005, John Gruber said:

>Andy Fragen <lists at thefragens.com> wrote on 01/05/05 at 8:34pm:
>
>> Is it possible to escape the '<' character?
>> 
>> I find that Radio uses '<%' and '%>' as macro delimiters and I need them
>> to pass through Markdown intact so that Radio will evaluate the macro.
>> Any ideas? TIA
>
>Markdown currently makes an exception for processor instructions, in
>the form of:
>
>    <? ... this is escaped ... ?>
>
>So to support this, I think we'd need to treat `<% ... %>` sequences
>the same way.
>
>This is probably a good idea, since ASP uses `<% ... %>` the same
>way PHP uses `<? ... ?>`.
>
>So I've logged it for future attention.
>
>-J.G.
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