Displaying backslashes in UNC paths

[Kevin Canney]

In a Sphinx project, I'm attempting to display UNC paths. Let's take \\volume\folder\ for example.

My understanding was that I'd need to double the backslashes as follows in my reStructuredText: \\\\volume\\folder\\

Doing that works correctly for the backslashes before and after "folder" but the 4 backslashes before "volume" are still displayed as a single backslash in my output: \volume\folder\

Can anyone advise how to display the double backslashes before "volume" so my output correctly displays \volume\folder?

Thanks in advance!

[Stefano David]

This should do the trick:

\\\ \\\ volume\\folder\\

(i.e., escape the \ then escape a space and repeat)

HTH,
Stefano

[Kevin Canney]

Thank you, Stefano! When I used \\\ \\\, the output still displayed a single backslash, but \\\\\\ (with no space) produced the double backslash I needed.

Thanks so much for your (very, very quick) help!

-Kevin

[Komiya Takeshi]

Hi,

It seems your example `\\\\volume\\folder\\` is rendered as two
backslases as expected.
This is a HTML output on my local.

Thanks,
Takeshi KOMIYA

2021年3月18日(木) 1:21 Kevin Canney <kmca...@gmail.com>:

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