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[Magnus Lie Hetland]

On Sep 19, 2006, at 0:01, A. Pagaltzis wrote:


> * Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> [2006-09-18 03:55]:

>> Maybe Markdown should do something about double-hyphens inside

>> comments. This way, a user could comment out any piece of

>> Markdown  text -- like this paragraph -- without having to

>> worry about the  double hyphens it contains.

>

> FWIW, HTML Tidy converts hyphen sequences in comments into equals

> sign sequences.


How about entity-encoding the hyphens? Or will that not help wrt. the  
XML syntax? (The semantics of the text would at least remain the  
same... No?)

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Magnus Lie Hetland
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