quoting & in markdown

[davidcarlisle]

Description of problem

When using markdown & is not protected in code sections (single or triple backticks)

The gfm spec documents that wihin code , & will not start an entity reference

https://github.github.com/gfm/#example-331

However this does not happen in respec markdown, at the top level you need & and in included markdown you need to double escape as &

URL to affected spec or repo:

test document (copy of markdown example from respec doc, plus → examples)

https://davidcarlisle.github.io/testdoc/respec-markdown

This actually came up in a potential W3C Math WG note while I was experimenting with using markdown source, see

https://w3c.github.io/mathml-docs/notes-on-mathml/#a-first-example

where I have to double quote as ± to get ± to show.

What happened (e.g., it crashed)?:

bactick & rightarrow; backtick produces →

Expected behavior (e.g., it shouldn't crash):

expect bactick & rightarrow; backtick to produce →

Optional, steps to reproduce:

See above test document.