On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote:
> <pre> in wikitext is explicitly not the same as <pre> in HTML. Unlike
> in HTML, HTML-like tags which appear inside <pre> are considered to be
> literal and are escaped. This behaviour is often used.

The choice of name was probably unfortunate, though.  There's now no
actual way to put arbitrary content in an HTML <pre> in wikitext --
only if it plays nicely with the leading space syntax.

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