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Angled brackets not rendering in markdown #118

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@TimShererAtAquent

Angled brackets are used in plaintext to indicate placeholder text, as follows: (Example from Get-Help.md)

“To see a particular topic, type: Get-Help about_, such as Get-Help about_Comparison_Operators.”

The result lacks the content in the brackets:

“To see a particular topic, type: Get-Help about, such as Get-Help about_Comparison_Operators.”

(There is a separate issue about the underscore after the word “about”. I haven’t found that in other topics, yet, so I can’t describe exactly when it happens.)

The markdown is probably reading as an XML tag.

Possible solution:

Replace angled brackets in text with < and >. (ampersand-l-t or g-t)

No change for angled brackets in code blocks – these work and shouldn’t be tinkered with.

I don’t know whether this will work and render correctly in the XML, but it works in atom preview mode.

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