Hmmm, I previously tried all combinations including full escaping and it didn't 
work.  But yours is working.  When I have time I'll go back and try again and 
see if there was something different.

Thanks.

Ted

> On Oct 20, 2015, at 8:18 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 21 October 2015 at 10:55, Ted Toal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> No, it doesn't.  I had tried that already.  When I run yours, it works.
>> Mine is in a different context, which must be altering how it is processed.
>> Perhaps I'm misundering something important about the asciidoc formatting.
>> Here's the text that does not work for me:
> 
> 
> Yes, quoting depends on the characters around the quote characters (if
> they are themselves quotes, word chars, whitespace, start/end of line,
> if the quotes are nested).  So there is no one "this incantation will
> work in all situations".
> 
> The following only took a little trialling to work for me.
> 
> = Hi
> 
> == Chapter 1
> \###
> 
> . *Open the allParameters.XY file in your plain text editor*
> +
> --
> If you are in a hurry, you don't need to read anything in the file, but
> can simply *search for "\#\#\#"*, which are comment lines
> can simply *search for \#\#\#* which are comment lines
> can simply *search for "\#@@"*, which are comment lines
> can simply search for "\#\#\#", which are comment lines
> can simply search for \#\## which are comment lines
> can simply search for "#@@", which are comment lines
> marking items that may need to be changed.
> --
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> = Hi
>> 
>> == Chapter 1
>> \###
>> 
>> . *Open the allParameters.XY file in your plain text editor*
>> +
>> --
>> If you are in a hurry, you don't need to read anything in the file, but
>> can simply *search for "\###"*, which are comment lines
>> can simply *search for \###* which are comment lines
>> can simply *search for "#@@"*, which are comment lines
>> can simply search for "\###", which are comment lines
>> can simply search for \### which are comment lines
>> can simply search for "#@@", which are comment lines
>> marking items that may need to be changed.
>> --
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 20, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Sapphira Armageddos
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 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]> 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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