Ok, I see after the fact that there has been some discussion on this before. I searched for “& lt;pre” instead of <pre to find the previous conversations.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. My question relates to WordPress, not this forum. What I found is even with the <pre> tags, Texturize wants to insert <p> tags in where it thinks paragraphs occurs. It also did not deal with ‘<>’ very well.
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