Amaya 8.7.2 and comments

Recently I compiled Amaya 8.7.2 from source for Redhat Core 2. This 
release doesn't compile with standard options, so I had to use the 
configure options

"--with-gtk --disable-annot --disable-redland"

Most likely this has nothing to do with a problem I'm encountering:

When I load into Amaya a html file with a comment tag (<!-- bla-bla -->) 
containing another tag, e.g.

<!-- <a name="new0" href="#new1"></a> -->

and do further editing within amay, then amaya replaces the tag marks 
('<' and '>') within the comment tag with the corresponding entities 
&lt; and &gt;

I haven't been able to figure out how to disable that 'interesting 
feature' and have downgraded to release 8.7 until I know how to handle 
that problem. I make frequent use of commenting out sections of html 
code, so ...

Could someone please enlighten me?

Best regards
-- 
Christian Mondrup, Sheet Music Editor
Werner Icking Music Archive
http://icking-music-archive.org/