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The backslash breaks [source] and [code]

Started by jfclavette Mar 25, 2006 at 10:54 PM 3 replies 1.3k views

Original Post

Mar 25, 2006 at 10:54 PM

While trying to post this:


 (x,y)
 |\  
 | \ 
y|  \   h
 |   \ 
 |___a\ 
    x   (0,0)

I had problems. The software totally borks the result. Worse, the forum actually replace \ with \, so you have to use this workaround everytime you edit. [Edited by - jfclavette on March 26, 2006 2:11:15 PM]

Conner McCloud

Mar 26, 2006 at 1:52 AM

It might be completely irrelivent, but that diagram also displays differently in the reply screen than it does in the actual thread. It is double spaced for some reason. WinXP, FF 1.5

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joanusdmentia

Mar 26, 2006 at 3:43 AM

Hasn't this been a known problem for ages, where the parser recognises the line continuation? The solution is to just put a space after the backslash.

jfclavette

Mar 26, 2006 at 2:10 PM

Quote:
Original post by joanusdmentia
Hasn't this been a known problem for ages, where the parser recognises the line continuation? The solution is to just put a space after the backslash.

Don't know, it's the first time I heard of it. I'll give your solution a try.

Edit: Works.

[Edited by - jfclavette on March 26, 2006 2:10:21 PM]

jbadams

Mar 28, 2006 at 5:01 AM

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is indeed a well known problem, it'd sure be nice to have a proper solution though if possible.

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