Escaping "<"

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:51:54 -0500, Michel Fortin
<michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:
> I was thinking about this. With Markdown, you can write tags in the
> middle of your text and that's great. But what if I want to write
> something looking like a tag in the middle of the text, which isn't
> code? No problem, I can use the HTML entity:
> 
>         The carriage return character is denoted by &lt;CR> in
>         this document.

Sorry to be such a n00b, but... is there a reason that MD doesn't
replace the corresponding `>` with `&gt;`? -Joe