No, I tried that.  I tried all combinations of escaping two of three.  I didn't 
try escaping only one of the three because that seemed unlikely to work.

ted

> On Sep 25, 2015, at 9:30 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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