 go right ahead.</p>

<p>Unlike block-level HTML tags, Markdown syntax <em>is</em> processed within
span-level tags.</p>

<h3 id="autoescape">Automatic Escaping for Special Characters</h3>

<p>In HTML, there are two characters that demand special treatment: <code>&lt;</code>
and <code>&amp;</code>. Left angle brackets are used to start tags; ampersands are
used to denote HTML entities. If you want to use them as literal
characters, you must escape them as entities, e.g. <code>&amp;lt;</code>, and
<code>&amp