And if I want three consecutive #'s how do I do it?

Ted Toal

> On Sep 25, 2015, at 3:10 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 26 September 2015 at 06:03, Ted Toal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Multiple pound or hash symbols in a row don't work right when each one is
>> escaped by a backslash character.  The last one comes out in the formatted
>> text as having a backslash preceding it.
>> 
>> For example, if the asciidoc contains    \#\#\#
>> then the output shows  ##\#
> 
> The backslash only has escaping properties if it is in front of a
> construct that actually has markup meaning.  The first two hashes is
> an "unquoted text" markup (with no content) followed by a hash without
> a closing hash and so its not markup.  If you escape the first hash it
> is put in the output and the second two are now the unquoted text
> markup.  If you escape the first two the last is again not markup
> since there is no matching end hash.  So if you now escape the last
> one, its not markup anyway and so the backslash isn't an escape, its a
> backslash.
> 
> Cheers
> Lex
> 
>> 
>> ted
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