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Contents of Javadoc {@snippet} are perturbed

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3-5 days
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25/100
Issue type
Bug
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Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java

Research direction

Review the details in issue #789 and reproduce the reported perturbation of Javadoc {@snippet} contents with google-java-format. Done means formatting no longer changes the rendered appearance of the snippet.

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Description

Formatting should never change the rendered appearance of javadoc.

Excellent details are in #789, but I'm splitting this out as separate issue.

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