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On 07.04.21 08:16, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> Escaping all HTML special characters, regardless of context, would break:
> 
> - using said characters within code blocks (inline and otherwise), where 
> the Markdown processor treats them verbatim;
> 
> - using them in Markdown syntax constructs, such as block quotes (though 
> arguably we only need to escape `<`) and <URL>s (which arguably isn't 
> very useful as we have GitHub auto-links turned on).
> 
> So, this transformation would need to be as part of the Markdown parsing 
> process (or otherwise replicate a subset of it, to know when to escape 
> and when not to, which is bound to be fragile).

Ah, dang it. Never mind then. Thanks for indulging me.