the string >; followed by a code callout breaks the code callouts

[stallio]

Inside a code listing, when the string >; is followed by a code callout, the callout breaks and the XML is dumped into the listing.

= listing test

.Test 1
----
 >; 
----

.Test 2
----
 >; <1>
----
<1> Callout breaks listing

Test 1 works but Test 2 returns the following error:

ERROR: failed to parse formatted text:  &gt� (reason: Expected ';' after &gt at byte 5)

[mojavelinux]

This issue comes from Asciidoctor core. The problem is that >; gets escaped to >; and the callout replacer considers ;; to be the start of a line comment. So it gets swallowed up and messes up the line. You can work around this issue by setting the line-comment attribute on the block.

[line-comment=//]
----
>; <1>
----

You can also set the attribute to empty string to turn off the check for the line comment altogether.