I tried escaping just one of the three and it seems to work just fine, at 
least with this source text: https://ptpb.pw/dTzw

Let me know if it works for you too.


On Saturday, September 26, 2015 at 7:00:28 AM UTC-7, Ted Toal wrote:
>
> 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] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> Without testing it I think escape the first two.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
> On 26 September 2015 at 13:46, Ted Toal <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> 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] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> On 26 September 2015 at 06:03, Ted Toal <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> 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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