Pipe characters aka 'or symbol' aka '|' must be escaped with a backslash to prevent being interpreted as a table in Markdown
- In the previous post, I re-discovered :-) that pipe characters aka the “or symbol “ aka
|must be escaped with a backslash to prevent being interpreted as a Markdown table. Example 308 of the github flavoured markdown spec seems to document which characters must be escaped (e.g. in addition to the pipe character, exclamation mark, quotation marks, etc.):- !"#$\%\&'()*+\,-.\/:\;<=>\?\@[\]\^_`{|}~