From 2bf866052d9543a41e1ffe3f38f3465d8f470644 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Donny Winston <dwinston@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:33:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Document role of semicolon and present alternative

This could perhaps close #1445
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 docs/sequenceDiagram.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/sequenceDiagram.md b/docs/sequenceDiagram.md
index c1b15a9ce..96bf951da 100644
--- a/docs/sequenceDiagram.md
+++ b/docs/sequenceDiagram.md
@@ -364,6 +364,8 @@ sequenceDiagram
 
 Numbers given are base 10, so `#` can be encoded as `#35;`. It is also supported to use HTML character names.
 
+Because semicolons can be used instead of line breaks to define the markup, you need to use `#59;` to include a semicolon in message text.
+
 ## sequenceNumbers
 
 It is possible to get a sequence number attached to each arrow in a sequence diagram. This can be configured when adding mermaid to the website as shown below: