Re: [Doxygen-users] A hash character inside a markdown table

[Albert <alb...@gm...>]

Brian,

Did you try to do the escaping by means of a backslash ?

Albert

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Brian Henning <bhe...@pi...>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I’m trying to display a hash inside a string inside a markdown table.
> Here is the source:
>
>
>
> -0.5   | P#B2      | -2<sup>-1</sup>
>
>
>
> This results in the following HTML for the center column:
>
> <td>P::B2 </td>
>
>
>
> If I try HTML entity such as this:
>
>
>
> -0.5   | P&#35;B2      | -2<sup>-1</sup>  <!-- Markdown gobbles the #
> character, so use HTML entity; actual format string is P#B2 -->
>
>
>
> Then the entity ends up escaped in the HTML:
>
> <td>P&amp;#35;B2 </td>
>
>
>
> I tried removing the inline HTML comment to make sure it wasn’t causing
> the problem, and it made no difference.
>
>
>
> Why is the ampersand getting escaped?  How do I prevent it, or otherwise
> stop markdown from parsing the # character?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -B
>
>
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