trentm / trentm/python-markdown2

footnote in triple tick not being escaped

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Description

I'm in the process of making an API using this utility, and I'm running into issues generating help for the footnote extra. It looks like when you have the footnote extra added, adding

This is a paragraph with a footnote. [^note-id]

[^note-id]: This is the text of the note.

inside ```'s, it's executing itself as a footnote, rather than escaping and showing the pre tags or whatever.

tl;dr: footnotes should be escaped when using triple ticks.

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Reproduce the issue in python-markdown2 with the footnotes extra enabled and the supplied triple-backtick example. Trace how fenced code and footnotes are processed, then verify that footnote syntax inside triple backticks is rendered as literal code rather than interpreted as a footnote.

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Tech stack
markdown, python
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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Mostly clear
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