Hi John,
appreciate the prompt reply. This indeed works as expected.


On Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 7:59:19 PM UTC-5, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
> Probably the part between $'s is being interpreted as LaTeX 
> math. 
>
> You can disable this with 
>
>     pandoc -f markdown-tex_math_dollars 
>
> But a better approach would be to put all of this in a 
> fenced or indented code block; then you'll know that 
> everything will be interpreted literally.  It will also 
> come out in a font that marks it as code. 
>
>
> +++ gid0...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <javascript:> [Jan 21 18 16:41 ]: 
> >   how would I go about formatting the following? 
> >     $serviceName = 'name1' 
> >     $userName = 'user1' 
> >     $securePassword = '5ecr3tw0rd' | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText 
> >   -Force 
> >     $expirationDate = $(Get-Date).AddDays(31) 
> >     $credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential 
> >   $userName,$securePassword 
> >     Set-AzureServiceRemoteDesktopExtension -ServiceName $serviceName 
> >   -Credential $credential -Expiration $expirationDate -Slot Production 
> >   The corresponding content of a Word document includes the following 
> >   (the problematic part is in bold): 
> > 
> >   $userName = 'user1' 
> > 
> >   $securePassword = '5ecr3tw0rd' | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText 
> >   -Force 
> > 
> >   $expirationDate = $(Get-Date).AddDays(31) 
> > 
> >   $credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential 
> >   userName.securePassword 
> > 
> >   Set-AzureServiceRemoteDesktopExtension -ServiceName $serviceName 
> >   -Credential $credential -Expiration $expirationDate -Slot Production 
> > 
> >   Set-AzureServiceRemoteDesktopExtension -ServiceName $serviceName 
> >   -Credential $credential -Expiration $expirationDate -Slot Staging ``` 
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