escaping backticks not working

[Michel Fortin]

Le 30 juin 2006 à 7:36, Milian Wolff a écrit :


> Backticks can't be escaped in both .pl and .php Markdown:

>

>     Text `escaped backtick: \` this should be code` Text

>

> Creates the following output:

>

>     <p>Text <code>escaped backtick: \</code> this should be code`  

> Text</p>


That's correct. Escapes do not work within code spans or code block:  
they are taken as literals on purpose so you don't have to escape  
them. It wouldn't be great if you had to double each backslash in a  
code snippet just to work around Markdown's escapes.

If you need to include a backtick inside a code span, you'll have to  
use more backticks to surround the code. This:

     Text ``escaped backtick: ` this should be code`` Text

should give the result you expected. Take a look at the code span  
syntax for more details:

<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#code>


Michel Fortin
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