Markdown Discuss - Jan 2007 - needs must make MD ignore my PHP

I need to exclude arbitrary chunks of my documents from Markdown  
parsing, because my documents are littered with <?php blah blah ?>,  
and a few other oddities.  These blocks get gifted with unwanted  
markup by Markdown:

	<?php blah blah ?>   becomes    <p><?php blah blah
?></p>

If I can't make it stop that, it's a dealbreaker for me in an  
otherwise fascinating and incredibly useful tool.  And my gut tells  
me that there has *got* to be a way, even though I've scoured the  
syntax docs and can't find it. (I did notice a mechanism for doing  
this via WordPress (<MTMarkdownOptions output='raw'>), but
that's
WordPress.  I'm handcrafting documents in BBEdit.)

What can I do to convince Markdown to ignore my php?

Thanks in advance!

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Le 2007-01-27 ? 20:54, Paul Ingraham, RMT a ?crit :
> I need to exclude arbitrary chunks of my documents from Markdown
> parsing, because my documents are littered with <?php blah blah ?>,
> and a few other oddities.  These blocks get gifted with unwanted
> markup by Markdown:
>
> 	<?php blah blah ?>   becomes    <p><?php blah blah
?></p>
>
> If I can't make it stop that, it's a dealbreaker for me in an
> otherwise fascinating and incredibly useful tool.  And my gut tells
> me that there has *got* to be a way, even though I've scoured the
> syntax docs and can't find it. (I did notice a mechanism for doing
> this via WordPress (<MTMarkdownOptions output='raw'>), but
that's
> WordPress.  I'm handcrafting documents in BBEdit.)
Hum, I'm not sure where you're adding these PHP blocks that get  
caught by Markdown. Are you converting Markdown to HTML using BBEdit,  
or using the PHP Markdown plugin for WordPress? Are you adding these  
PHP chunks in posts and/or pages within WordPress or in the  
templates? And are you using another plugin tho make PHP code in  
posts and/or pages execute because it seems to me that WordPress  
doesn't execute PHP code in posts and pages by default?

> What can I do to convince Markdown to ignore my php?
It's hard to give advice without knowing more, but it's certain that  
< MTMarkdownOptions> won't work in WordPress because it's a
template
tag for MovableType, not WordPress.


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