The text in the screencap is <!-- 19 --> … if I open the file in Notepad, I see that it’s the closing of an HTML comment, but in Obsidian it looks like an arrow, even though it’s not an arrow… it’s VERY confusing, because comments end with 3 characters not 1
What I’m trying to do
I’m trying to get it to display what I type, instead of munging it into nonsense… but I can’t find a setting to turn that off
after I posted that, I went digging for something else & this issue resolved itself… turns out it’s the font, just changed it with (sub in your favorite font, of course)
my “something else” was tables that don’t wrap… fixed that with (probably the first part is enough, but I also didn’t like the font being different for tables, and mono fonts are just too wide for notes anyway):