gwern comments on Awful Austrians - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Swimmy 12 April 2009 06:06AM

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Comment author: gwern 13 April 2009 04:26:52PM *  0 points [-]

In theory, according to <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#backslash>, you're supposed to be able to backslash-escape ')'. That this doesn't work is a bug in LW's software, I think. (At least, I don't remember running into it using markdown or Pandoc on my own Markdown pages.)

Comment author: thomblake 14 April 2009 06:17:36PM *  0 points [-]

I'm pretty sure it works. try it

ETA: yep, you can do it.