Possible bug in Markdown.pl with `<<` handling

John Gruber gruber at fedora.net
Wed Sep 13 00:28:57 EDT 2006


Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote on 9/11/06 at 6:39 PM:


> Your example illustrate the problem quite well, but is it really a

> bug? How can Markdown tell <properly> isn't really a tag? What if you

> had <<img src="">>? In fact, Markdown treat <properly> as if it was a

> tag and leave it alone as it should according to John's syntax

> description document.


Right. This is working as designed at the moment. If you want to
use `<<`, you'll just have to put spaces around it:

this << that

-J.G.


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