Escaping in gemtext

[acdw]

On 2020-11-10 (Tuesday) at 02:08, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:

>   So the question is---how often are you going to quote material where a
> line starts with ```?  Is it often enough to worry about it?  Or could you
> place the example as a plain text file and link to it?
> 
>   -spc

10000%.  The escaping suggestion has been brought up a lot, but I have no idea when writing a line starting with ``` is 100% necessary, and couldn't be prefixed with a zero-width space or even a normal space.  Even the various "getting started with gemtext" posts, which are the only ones that might conceivably actually have need to do it (from my understanding the escaping rules in other markup are really only there so you can talk about the markup in the markup), get by just fine without doing so.  Like Sean said, if it's *really* *that* *necessary* you can just put it in a file marked text/plain.  But I really doubt that it is.

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