--- coderay-orig/lib/coderay/encoders/html.rb	2009-06-07 16:15:00.271650000 +0200
+++ coderay/lib/coderay/encoders/html.rb	2009-08-13 20:46:53.419539186 +0200
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
   #
   # == Options
   #
+  # === :escape
+  # Escape html entities
+  # Default: true
+  #
   # === :tab_width
   # Convert \t characters to +n+ spaces (a number.)
   # Default: 8
@@ -86,6 +90,7 @@
     FILE_EXTENSION = 'html'
 
     DEFAULT_OPTIONS = {
+      :escape => true,
       :tab_width => 8,
 
       # :level => :xhtml,  # reserved for future use
@@ -162,6 +167,7 @@
       @HTML_ESCAPE = HTML_ESCAPE.dup
       @HTML_ESCAPE["\t"] = ' ' * options[:tab_width]
 
+      @escape = options[:escape]
       @opened = [nil]
       @css = CSS.new options[:style]
 
@@ -245,7 +251,7 @@
         # raise 'Token with nil as text was given: %p' % [[text, type]] 
       
       when String
-        if text =~ /#{HTML_ESCAPE_PATTERN}/o
+        if @escape && (text =~ /#{HTML_ESCAPE_PATTERN}/o)
           text = text.gsub(/#{HTML_ESCAPE_PATTERN}/o) { |m| @HTML_ESCAPE[m] }
         end
         @opened[0] = type