Escaping "<"

Jelks Cabaniss jelks at jelks.nu
Tue Mar 15 18:48:10 EST 2005


Michel Fortin wrote:
> By the way, it may be needed for ampersands too, think of this:
> 
> 	He works for AT&T; he has a nice job.
> 
> Markdown thinks `&T;` is an entity. 

???

Markdown currently allows AT&T with no escaping of the ampersand -- it knows
the difference between a non-entity like `&T` on one hand and `&copy;`,
`&ouml;`, etc. on the other.  The AT&T example is even on the syntax page,
or maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying.

/Jelks





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