Re: backslash-escaped leading space in markdown table treated as a literal backslash

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

+++ John Muccigrosso [Feb 05 18 12:32 ]:
>   I think this is a relatively recent regression. `\ ` at the start of a
>   line normally gets treated as a space:
>   > pandoc
>   one
>   \ two
>   three
>   <p>one</p>
>   <p> two</p>
>   <p>three</p>
>   But if it's in a table, it gets preserved now. HTML below:
>   > pandoc
>   one | one
>   ----|---
>   two | two
>   \   | three

This is because we strip trailing spaces before parsing the
cell (that's not a new change).  Note that if you have
`\ a` in your cell, the escaped space will work; it's only
at the end that it doesn't, and this mirrors how a paragraph
ending in a `\` with no following space is treated.

Are there real-world examples where you need the `\ ` in a
cell with nothing else?