How can I get literal text in Confluence, without markup

[Lorin LaFoe]

* is used for markup for bullets. 

But what if I want to document CRON?

* 0/15 7-19 * * *

Is this even possible  or is this a gap?

[Piotr Zadrożny _Eyzee_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Lorin LaFoe 

You can write for example:

a* 0/15 7-19 * * * [ENTER]

and then up arrow and remove a.

Best regards,

Piotr

[Lorin LaFoe]

That worked, thanks

Seems a lot like taking advantage of a bug I'm hoping they won't "fix"

[Bill Bailey]

Your two options in order of my preference is:

1. as @Matthias Gaiser [K15t]  suggested, use the code macro. Better solution for documentations
2. use the escape character "\". Works faster than typing an unneeded character and then deleting it.

[Lorin LaFoe]

escape character  \*  does not work, displays \*

What I would expect to work and what I tried first.

[Bill Bailey]

Refer to this KB

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/unable-to-use-some-characters-like-backslash-223904158.html 

Says it should work. But maybe not on Cloud and the "new" editor?

[Matthias Gaiser [K15t]]

Hi @Lorin LaFoe

how about inserting a code snippet into the page and use this for documenting your cron expression? You can type /code in order to create the code snippet - and rest assured that Confluence won't perform some auto-convert logic on the content.

Cheers,
Matthias.