Posted by oddhack on
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Another-markup-escaping-question-tp5665p5670.html

Ah, I see the problem now - missed one level of block quoting, so the real scenario was more like

[open]
--
[source,asciidoc]
----
[open]
--
Lorem ipsum.

include::lorem.ipsum[]
----
--

I can work around this by using three dashes on the outer (actual) open block to avoid misinterpretation of the two dashes on the inner (code highlighter-rendered) two dashes, but is there truly no way to escape the inner two dashes so they don't cause this problem to begin with?