Display Shortcodes in Content

Documentation (this site, for instance) often requires the display of Hugo codes

Problem#

In the Retain Line Breaks page, I wanted to display the poem shortcode, rather than interpret it. I placed it inside three backticks, and thought that would do the trick. But instead: hugo server tried to interpret the shortcode and complained that I had an Error building site: failed to extract shortcode: template for shortcode "poem" not found.

Solution#

I’m grateful to dkebler, who posed a similar question, and to rdwatters who offered a solution: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/solved-how-to-make-hugo-ignore-shortcode-delimiters-e-g-when-used-in-code-blocks/6045

I still had trouble figuring out what the end code should look like, and finally figured out that the end tag should look like this:

{{<* /poem *>}}

(BTW, to type that I needed two asterisks, to enable it to display one.)