So are you saying that the particular escaping that is needed for ### differs depending on context, and therefore I'd need to try different combinations at EACH OCCURRENCE within the document?
> On Oct 21, 2015, at 6:22 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 22 October 2015 at 10:15, Ted Toal <[email protected]> wrote: >> Lex, >> Ok, here it fails in the second section. I don't know why. It seems no >> different than the first section. >> ted >> >> >> = 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. >> -- >> >> . *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 > > works for me > > Cheers > Lex > >> marking items that may need to be changed. >> >> Each "#@@" comment says whether it must be changed, might need to >> be changed, or probably will never need to be changed, etc. Many of these >> items >> typically will never need to be changed, so the actual number of changes >> that need >> to be made is smaller than it might first appear. It is >> recommended that rather than hurrying, you take time to read through >> the file, as the comments explain the purpose of each parameter, and you >> will >> want to know this information, at least for key parameters, to select the >> right >> parameter values for your needs. >> -- >> >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "asciidoc" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "asciidoc" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/asciidoc/_7q0bIp0BNo/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. 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