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authorFabien Schurter <8007715+fabschurt@users.noreply.github.com>2020-03-21 01:15:00 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-03-20 17:15:00 -0700
commit5d88396dd45bf8668d2066693a6891aa275c16f3 (patch)
treec2505ca48a74712c27d5c7a45d41b13a3f35d0b3
parent7601953205a233a72acceec780ff7a0e8160f1a0 (diff)
downloadpandoc-5d88396dd45bf8668d2066693a6891aa275c16f3.tar.gz
Make MANUAL more explicit about NBSP handling by all_symbols_escapable (#6201)
Fixes #6154.
-rw-r--r--MANUAL.txt9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt
index 639c925b7..da70096d3 100644
--- a/MANUAL.txt
+++ b/MANUAL.txt
@@ -4019,9 +4019,12 @@ which allows only the following characters to be backslash-escaped:
(However, if the `markdown_strict` format is used, the standard Markdown rule
will be used.)
-A backslash-escaped space is parsed as a nonbreaking space. It will
-appear in TeX output as `~` and in HTML and XML as `\&#160;` or
-`\&nbsp;`.
+A backslash-escaped space is parsed as a nonbreaking space. In TeX output,
+it will appear as `~`. In HTML and XML output, it will appear as a
+literal unicode nonbreaking space character (note that it will thus
+actually look "invisible" in the generated HTML source; you can still
+use the `--ascii` command-line option to make it appear as an explicit
+entity).
A backslash-escaped newline (i.e. a backslash occurring at the end of
a line) is parsed as a hard line break. It will appear in TeX output as