Markdown to Markdown: Prevent appending backslashes in the document

Markdown to Markdown: Prevent appending backslashes in the document

[Nikhil Agarwal]

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Hi, I am using Pandoc to clean up my markdown files, i.e. I am exporting 
from Markdown and to Markdown. In this process, Pandoc adds a lot of `\` 
the backslash character before special characters. Is it possible (maybe 
with an extension) to prevent Pandoc from adding the additional backslash 
characters?

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Re: Markdown to Markdown: Prevent appending backslashes in the document

[John MacFarlane]

Pandoc is pretty conservative about escaping
characters that might be interpreted as formatting.
You can reduce this a bit by turning off some of
the extensions (since this reduces the number
of characters that might be special characters).
But only a bit.

Nikhil Agarwal <explore.na-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hi, I am using Pandoc to clean up my markdown files, i.e. I am exporting 
> from Markdown and to Markdown. In this process, Pandoc adds a lot of `\` 
> the backslash character before special characters. Is it possible (maybe 
> with an extension) to prevent Pandoc from adding the additional backslash 
> characters?
>
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Re: Markdown to Markdown: Prevent appending backslashes in the document

[Nikhil Agarwal]

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Is it possible to create some extension that analyzes the new backslashes 
that got added and remove those? By doing `diff` we are able to identify 
the added `\` but can we automate this? 

The algorithm could be that we analyze every pair of characters 
sequentially from the old file and check if the corresponding 2 characters 
if present in the new file, contain a backslash between them. If so, the 
backslash should be deleted. The only issue is how to find the 
corresponding characters in the new file.  

On Wednesday, 26 December 2018 22:32:29 UTC+1, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
>
> Pandoc is pretty conservative about escaping 
> characters that might be interpreted as formatting. 
> You can reduce this a bit by turning off some of 
> the extensions (since this reduces the number 
> of characters that might be special characters). 
> But only a bit. 
>
> Nikhil Agarwal <explo...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes: 
>
> > Hi, I am using Pandoc to clean up my markdown files, i.e. I am exporting 
> > from Markdown and to Markdown. In this process, Pandoc adds a lot of `\` 
> > the backslash character before special characters. Is it possible (maybe 
> > with an extension) to prevent Pandoc from adding the additional 
> backslash 
> > characters? 
> > 
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