Semicolon in long_description, say

[Ryan Schmidt]

I want to use a semicolon in the long_description of a port, minivmac  
in this case:

	The default is to emulate a Mac Plus (1986-1990); this is also the  
best-tested and therefore recommended emulation.

If I just include the semicolon by itself, as I would expect to be  
able to do, portindex blows up. Apparently I have to escape the  
semicolon in some way.

If I precede the semicolon with a backslash, as some ports do (p5- 
html-strip, xephem, xercesj, monit, abclock, xcircuit, starfighter,  
ski, galaxis, zile, pccts, nbench-byte), then the word with which the  
semicolon ends is surrounded with curly braces in the output of port  
info:

	The default is to emulate a Mac Plus {(1986-1990);} this is also the  
best-tested and therefore recommended emulation.

If I enclose the entire description string in quotation marks, as  
some other ports do (xearth, plplot), then the entire description  
string is surrounded by curly braces in port info:

	{The default is to emulate a Mac Plus (1986-1990); this is also the  
best-tested and therefore recommended emulation.}

So... what's the solution here to get just a plain semicolon  
displayed in port info?