How do I keep Pandoc from making "# of People" a header

Question

I have a Pandoc / markdown Grid table where I want one cell to have the contents "# of People". I tried this:

+-------------------+
| **Cell Content:** |
+===================+
| # of People       |
+-------------------+

Unfortunately, it converted that to this html:

<td align="left"><h1 id="of-People">of People</h1></td>

If I put '' around the # (i.e. '#' of People), it doesn't treat it as a header, but it does keep the ''.

Is there any way to get Pandoc to not process the # as a header level marking, without having to add extra visible characters?

Answer 1

Use a backslash to escape the #:

\# of People