$ echo '&' |tidy --show-body-only yes -q --quote-ampersand yes --preserve-entities yes
& #Hey, the man page said it would convert this to & !
$ echo '&'|tidy --show-body-only yes -q --quote-ampersand yes --preserve-entities yes
& #Well, at least it didn't destroy it, like the following:
$ echo '&'|tidy --show-body-only yes -q --quote-ampersand yes
&
$ echo '&'|tidy --show-body-only yes -q
&
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