As you are marking up your document, you may come across characters in your document text that also have a purpose in Markup. Specifically, Markup attaches special meaning to square bracket, forward slash, and backslash characters. If any of these characters are to appear as literal text in the final document, they must be marked in the HotDocs Model to show that they are just text, rather than part of the Markup.
To mark a special character, type a backslash before it in the document. So:
For example, this text in a HotDocs Model:
For a complete description, see H:\\Publications\\Complete Description.doc \[revised 2006\]
appears like this in the final document:
For a complete description, see H:\Publications\Complete Description.doc [revised 2006]
Here are two reasons for marking special characters in HotDocs Models: First, macros used to manipulate Markup in HotDocs Models rely on the proper use of special characters. Unmarked special characters appear to be part of the Markup, causing incorrect macro behavior. Second, document drafting applications (such as HotDocs) that accept HotDocs Models as input cannot operate properly if special characters are not marked.
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