gjm comments on Think Like a Supervillain - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 20 February 2013 08:34AM

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Comment author: gjm 20 February 2013 01:41:18PM *  4 points [-]

The rparen in your Ozymandias link needs escaping: [this guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias_(comics\)) --> this guy. (I estimate p=0.5 of my not having screwed up the markup myself, but I'll fix it if I have.)

EDITED to add: harrumph, it appears that LW undocumentedly implements an extension to Markdown where a bare URL is turned into a link, and I haven't found any way to stop the linkifying without also changing what is displayed. So you might notice that the colon above is italicized, which is a really crappy workaround. Maybe there's a better one.

Comment author: dbaupp 20 February 2013 05:49:09PM 6 points [-]

If you wrap text in a pair of back ticks (`) then it gets displayed as "code" so left unmodified by the markdown parser.

(E.g. [this guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias_(comics\)))

Comment author: Mestroyer 20 February 2013 05:41:22PM 0 points [-]

fixed, thanks.