Drop backslash escapes that Markdown does not need - #508
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Pages converted from APT with an older doxia-converter carry an escape in front of punctuation that is not markup where it stands: a hyphen or underscore inside a word, a parenthesis, a full stop after a letter. The backslash renders as nothing and only makes the source harder to read and to edit. Only positions where the bare character can never be markup are touched. A full stop after a digit keeps its escape, so an ordered list marker cannot appear by accident, and angle brackets keep theirs, since <escapeString> would otherwise be read as a tag. Code spans, fenced blocks and link destinations are left alone.
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Pages converted from APT with an older
doxia-convertercarry a backslash in front ofpunctuation that is not markup where it stands, for example
maven\-source\-plugin,\(default\)andrequired\.. The backslash renders as nothing; it only makes the sourceharder to read and to edit, which was the point of moving to Markdown.
Only positions where the bare character can never be markup are touched: a hyphen,
underscore or asterisk between two word characters, a parenthesis, a full stop that
does not follow a digit, and an exclamation mark not followed by
[.Left alone deliberately:
<escapeString>really would be read as an HTML tag...is rendered as a single ellipsis characterVerified by building the site before and after: every generated page is identical in
its visible text and in every link target.