I'm attempting to preview an not-yet-posted message here, that contains a ZTree command that uses a pair of "greater-than" and "lesser-than" characters.

However, the ZTree forum software treats that as an HTML command, and hides it.

How can I format a "visible" html-like character string in a message?

I tried using the ( pre ... /pre ) preformatted text codes, but it doesn't work.

( I know what I typed above isn't the "correct" html format -- I typed it like that to prevent it from "disappearing" before you could read it.)