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Backslashitis
Authored by: pmccann on Feb 05, '03 06:37:03PM

AAARGH! I hate this thing: preview showed *no* backslashes when I used
a single backslash in those commands, so I doubled them up. Cool, so
preview displays them nicely as single backslashes, just as desired.

So... submit the thing and whaddyaknow: double backslashes and no edit
facility. Bring on the site upgrade! (The forums site has no problems
with such things.)

So just in case it's not obvious: each of the double backslashes in
my previous post should be single.

Sigh...



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Backslashitis
Authored by: robg on Feb 05, '03 06:56:53PM

Sucks, doesn't it? Basically, you need two to get one most of the time, but each time you hit Preview, you lose one so you need to add it back. Yech.

The new engine features a [code] tag which leaves EVERYTHING in the tag alone (hooray!). It's also much smarter about handling these special characters, though I'm still not sure it's perfect -- but the mantra will be "use the [code] tag."

-rob.



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