Monospace formatting in ability disables ability

I'm writing a macro to calculate shares of the loot in my pirate campaign. This code works; it prompts for values, outputs a bold headline and the results. ** ========== HEAR YE ========== ** Of ?{Shares|5} shares of ?{Pieces of 8|100} pieces of 8: 1 share is [[ floor(?{Pieces of 8}/?{Shares}) ]] Po8 2 shares is [[ floor(?{Pieces of 8}/?{Shares}*2) ]] Po8 3 shares is [[ floor(?{Pieces of 8}/?{Shares}*3) ]] Po8 But this doesn't. The headline is in monospace red, followed by a single backtick, and then the macro is printed. No prompts, no calculations. What's wrong here? ``` ========== HEAR YE ========== ``` Of ?{Shares|5} shares of ?{Pieces of 8|100} pieces of 8: 1 share is [[ floor(?{Pieces of 8}/?{Shares}) ]] Po8 2 shares is [[ floor(?{Pieces of 8}/?{Shares}*2) ]] Po8 3 shares is [[ floor(?{Pieces of 8}/?{Shares}*3) ]] Po8

the backtick is a special character used by roll20 chat which basically stops macro parsing.&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Text_Chat#Escape_Text_.28.60.29" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Text_Chat#Escape_Text_.28.60.29</a> Good for displaying macro code in chat for example...&nbsp; I would simply try another character.

Yes, one backtick means don't parse the rest. But TWO backticks means red monospace. Because, TWO. <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Text_Chat#Basic_Formatting" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Text_Chat#Basic_Formatting</a> FWIW, I tried two backticks but it stripped off the first one and just printed all the text. Then I tried three in front and two on back. And... I can see I'll just use bold and drop this. I was hoping I'd overlooked something.

Also: I meant to say thanks for the quick reply, and a link to the source. Thanks!

Try putting a space in front of it. IIRC, it only does its parsing denial when it's at the start of a line.&nbsp;

Putting a period in front of it worked. Leading spaces were removed. Thanks!

Cool

Could try &amp;nbsp;

Yes! Thanks! Works perfectly. Final macro, for future pirate captains. calc-shares: &amp;nbsp;``?{Pieces of 8|3527} pieces of 8, ?{Shares|5} shares`` 1 share is [[ floor(?{Pieces of 8}/?{Shares}) ]] Po8 2 shares is [[ floor(?{Pieces of 8}/?{Shares}*2) ]] Po8 3 shares is [[ floor(?{Pieces of 8}/?{Shares}*3) ]] Po8