13.2. Entering code and text with special characters

Special characters such as *, | and #, along with HTML characters such as <, > and & may be escaped using \:

You can write down equations like 2\*3\=6 and HTML tags
like \<body\> using the escape character: \\.

<p>
You can write down equations like 2*3=6 and HTML tags
like <body> using the escape character: \.
</p>

And we can quote code blocks using backticks:

My code doesn't work:

`for (int i=0; i<100; i--)
{
    doSomething();
}`

Any ideas?

<p>
My code doesn't work:
</p>

<pre>for (int i=0; i<100; i--)
{
    doSomething();
}</pre>

<p>
Any ideas?
</p>