# 大于和小于的意外格式

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/unexpected-formatting-of-greater-than-and-less-than/44479>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [2016 年5 月 19 日 07:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unexpected-formatting-of-greater-than-and-less-than/44479 "2016-05-19T07:21:51Z")\
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作者： ![GaurangTandon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gaurangtandon/32/52384_2.png) [@GaurangTandon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GaurangTandon)\
发布日期： [2016 年5 月 19 日 07:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unexpected-formatting-of-greater-than-and-less-than/44479/1 "2016-05-19T07:21:51Z")

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The is the actual text in the actual way it was written:

**Actual text:**

```
if a<b
  print "a is less than b!"
elsif b<a
  print "b is less than a"
```

Can someone please explain why the following result is being produced by the above text? How does the bold text and the blue link text come into existence? If it a fault with Discourse markdown parser, please fix it. Thanks! 😃

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**Result produced:**

if a\<b  
print “a is less than b!”  
elsif b\<a  
print “b is less than a”

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Anything below that text also appears weird 😕 even after a horizontal rule is put

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