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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.

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Re^2: Escaping special characters in PM
by polettix (Vicar) on May 14, 2005 at 13:45 UTC
    Dooh! That's where I read them!

    I don't entirely agree about your alternative suggestion, I would really like to see a brief list of the most useful codes instead of a note that they do work (which I could already know) without seeing which they are.

    Thanks to eibwen's suggestion I've added it to my Free Nodelet, so I'll be able to find it in the future. Notwithstanding, I still think that it would be useful for most Monks to find it at the end of the editing page, near the list of approved tags.

    Flavio (perl -e 'print(scalar(reverse("\nti.xittelop\@oivalf")))')

    Don't fool yourself.
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