Message of Sequence Starting with '=' bugged

Question

A simple example like below:

@startuml
Bob -> Alice : hello\n=123
@enduml

The "123" will be bold and bigger.

PS: I made a script to generate .puml and did some wrap with long messages by adding '\n' before space ' '. Sometimes, it happen.

Answer 1

You can use Unicode char

Comments

Thank you. This solution saved me.

Answer 2

Hello H.,

In fact, this is a creole (markup) functionally.

See doc. here:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_(markup)#Creole_syntax_examples
• https://plantuml.com/en/creole#545b1150d9c178bf

If that can help,
Regards.

Answer 3

An alternative answer.  You just need to make sure the "=" is not the first character on the line, so adding a space in front would be enough to prevent the Heading format being invoked.  But that obviously shifts the text by a character.  So another option is to prefix with some formatting tag, <plain> works well as it adds no extra formatting.  Unfortunately tags only apply to the current line and are ended by a carriage return (\n), so you can't just blindly wrap up all your text, you have to target a particular line:

Bob -> Alice : hello\n<plain>=123</plain>