[IPython-User] ipython notebook codeblock with greaterthan

[Jakob Gager]

On 01/16/2013 09:39 AM, Min RK wrote:
>
> On Jan 15, 2013, at 22:32, Jakob Gager<gager@ilsb.tuwien.ac.at>  wrote:
>
>> On 01/15/2013 06:27 PM, MinRK wrote:
>>>>
>>>> To really get a greater sign (and no blockquote) you can use the html code&gt; (don't forget the
>>>     semicolon).
>>>>
>>>> #&gt; ls.dat  # works fine!
>>>
>>>     I would suggest avoiding html entities, That would not support conversion to Tex/rst/pdf… with nbconvert.
>>>     Usually you can escape the Markdown delimiter with \ (backslash), it does not work on this case,
>>>     but starting the line with a non breaking space does the trick here.
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think this comment is accurate.  Markdown is 100% intended to include inline html, and any
>>> converter should expect this to be the case.  Pandoc, for instance, handles html entities inside markdown
>>> just fine.  If nbconvert can't handle html entities in markdown, this is just a bug in nbconvert.
>>
>> Well, unfortunately this is only partially true. Pandoc handles html entries in markdown only if the
>> target format supports those (e.g. target = html) -
>> see http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#raw-html.
>> However, if you want to convert markdown to latex, the html entities are simply removed and won't show up
>> in the tex file. That's why Matthias suggested to avoid html entities in the notebook (I guess).
>>
>> So this "bug" is not related to nbconvert but is rather a result of the way pandoc handles html entities
>> in markdown. (I'm currently working on this markdown-html2latex conversion in my nbconverter)
>
> Sure, not tables and such,
> but special characters like&gt;, etc. do work, and it is correct and safe to use them in markdown.

Thanks, for this info! I wasn't aware of this.
Jakob