needs must make MD ignore my PHP

[Paul Ingraham, RMT]

I need to exclude arbitrary chunks of my documents from Markdown  
parsing, because my documents are littered with <?php blah blah ?>,  
and a few other oddities.  These blocks get gifted with unwanted  
markup by Markdown:

	<?php blah blah ?>   becomes    <p><?php blah blah ?></p>

If I can't make it stop that, it's a dealbreaker for me in an  
otherwise fascinating and incredibly useful tool.  And my gut tells  
me that there has *got* to be a way, even though I've scoured the  
syntax docs and can't find it. (I did notice a mechanism for doing  
this via WordPress (<MTMarkdownOptions output='raw'>), but that's  
WordPress.  I'm handcrafting documents in BBEdit.)

What can I do to convince Markdown to ignore my php?

Thanks in advance!

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