Re: [Quickbook] No longer able to build the regex docs?

>> Ah wait... after your fix, then the "=\<=" used in the regx docs *is*
>> correctly escaped.
>
> That's because I just removed all support for escapes in simple
> markup, so it just treats them as normal characters (as it did
> before).
>
> Quickbook still won't encode \< outside of simple markup. For example
> all of these:
>
>    /x/
>    '''<emphasis>x</emphasis>'''
>    \<emphasis\>x\</emphasis\>
>
> generate:
>
>    <emphasis>x</emphasis>
>
> But there is a difference - docbook escaped with ''' will be ignored
> by the post-processor, so if it's invalid xml quickbook will still
> successfully run (but you'll get an error from xsltproc), but \< etc.
> aren't be ignored by the post-processor, which is why it failed.

Understood, but this sounds more like an accidental back door, than a 
deliberate feature, in any case it appears not to be documented?  It's also 
easy to accidently fall into this back door by writing \< as I did in the 
regex docs.

John.