I knew I had seen the square bracket use noted somewhere... On your Edit User Settings page, under the "Custom Node Title Definition" section, it says:
Available tokens are %T (title), %D (create date), %N (node id), and %
+S (section; e.g. SOPW, Q&A, but only for root nodes). Don't use [ nor
+ ]; use [ and ] instead.

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But that's obviously specific to that user setting, and not easy to find ...

An alternative place to adding a note in [id://Writeup Formatting Tips] would be to add it to Perl Monks Approved HTML tags to explicitly state the the HTML & codes work.

Update: You're right--i think the first spot is better, too. I meant "alternative" more as "possible" to just give the developers another spot that it could be useful in case they didn't like the first spot for some reason.

In reply to Re: Escaping special characters in PM by davidrw
in thread Escaping special characters in PM by polettix

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