Without testing it I think escape the first two.

Cheers
Lex

On 26 September 2015 at 13:46, Ted Toal <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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