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 [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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