From b5c09ada79e3fe7b28b48ddb13d5d66989cc6c6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wuzzy <wuzzy2@mail.ru>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 12:42:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document hypertext escaping (#11374)

---
 doc/lua_api.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/lua_api.txt b/doc/lua_api.txt
index ded416333..aa59898d7 100644
--- a/doc/lua_api.txt
+++ b/doc/lua_api.txt
@@ -2980,6 +2980,9 @@ Some tags can enclose text, they open with `<tagname>` and close with `</tagname
 Tags can have attributes, in that case, attributes are in the opening tag in
 form of a key/value separated with equal signs. Attribute values should not be quoted.
 
+If you want to insert a literal greater-than sign or a backslash into the text,
+you must escape it by preceding it with a backslash.
+
 These are the technically basic tags but see below for usual tags. Base tags are:
 
 `<style color=... font=... size=...>...</style>`