From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-06-11T04:47:07+09:00
Subject: Re: RedCloth/Textile question

Jim Menard wrote:

>But this
>
>	This is "*" interesting because I am talking about "*" characters.
>
>outputs the text between the asterisks as bold. Is there any way to turn off
>the meaning of "*", "+", etc. so that it does not start a region of marked up
>text?
>  
>
For protecting short phrases from RedCloth's processor, surround with 
double equals signs.

  in: ==This is "*" interesting because I am talking about "*" characters.==
  out: This is "*" interesting because I am talking about "*" characters.

  in: This *bold* but this is ==*asterisked*==.
  out: This <strong>bold</strong> but this is *asterisked*.

If you have a large block of text you want protected, you can surround 
it with <notextile> tags.  In addition, <pre> and <code> contents are 
protected from Textile formatting.

I'll clarify this in the reference @ http://hobix.com/textile/

>Another question: can I insert literal HTML characters like &42; (which is an
>asterisk)?
>  
>
You should be able to.  Looks like this is broken (frown) but I will put 
this in the stack.  Thanks for the bug report, Jim.

_why