212: Heading or section break in notes
Three consecutive underscores ___
at the beginning of a block mark notes, for example footnotes. In your case the content of the note appears to be a heading or section break, but these can not be a note.
Solution
If you meant to have a heading or section break after a note, make sure to leave a blank line between both and do not forget the actual text of the note either:
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Homer J. Simpson’s middle name is actually Jay.
--- The incidence with the cat ---
If you meant to start a note with three literal equals signs ===
, three literal hyphens ---
or plus signs +++
, two literal hyphens separated by a space - -
or two literal plus signs separated by a space + +
, which all mark headings or section breaks of some kind, then mark them as literal by prepending a backslash:
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\+++ was the rating given by the credit rating agency.
If you really need to put an actual heading inside a note, you can achieve that by putting the heading inside an embedded Aneamal file inside the note:
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[a]
|--- Mysterious heading ---