On 2014-12-30 01:10, Walter Bright wrote:
It's not a hack. The macro system is designed to work that way. All markup systems require some sort of escape mechanism. Including Markup.
You don't need to escape all the special symbols used in Markdown, only in certain place. In Markdown, if you start a line with a star, '*', it will be interpreted as the beginning of an unordered list. But if you write a star in the middle of text it will just output a star, as expected.
Try for yourself in this online Markdown editor with live preview: http://dillinger.io/
-- /Jacob Carlborg
