diff --git a/src/DiffEngine.Tests/FsStringLiteralTests.cs b/src/DiffEngine.Tests/FsStringLiteralTests.cs
index e6841543..d48dced0 100644
--- a/src/DiffEngine.Tests/FsStringLiteralTests.cs
+++ b/src/DiffEngine.Tests/FsStringLiteralTests.cs
@@ -300,12 +300,21 @@ public async Task ParseRejects(string expression)
         await Assert.That(parsed).IsFalse();
     }
 
-    // The indent is stripped by ordinal prefix, so a content line less indented than the closing
-    // delimiter is not something this can read
+    // A triple-quoted literal that is not written to the layout convention. F# has no raw string
+    // form, so this is a perfectly good literal and its value is simply what it says - which is
+    // also what StripLayout returns for the same text, and the two have to agree or an
+    // OriginalValue anchor can never match.
     [Test]
-    public async Task ParseRejectsMalformedIndent()
+    [Arguments("\"\"\"\n  a\n      \"\"\"", "\n  a\n      ")]
+    // The idiomatic hand-written shape: content starting on the opening line.
+    [Arguments("\"\"\"{\n  \"a\": 1\n}\"\"\"", "{\n  \"a\": 1\n}")]
+    public async Task ParseKeepsContentWithNoLayoutToStrip(string expression, string expected)
     {
-        var parsed = FsStringLiteral.TryParse("\"\"\"\n  a\n      \"\"\"", out _);
-        await Assert.That(parsed).IsFalse();
+        var parsed = FsStringLiteral.TryParse(expression, out var value);
+        await Assert.That(parsed).IsTrue();
+        await Assert.That(value).IsEqualTo(expected);
+        // Whatever a producer sends as OriginalValue for this literal goes through StripLayout,
+        // so the two readers have to land in the same place
+        await Assert.That(FsStringLiteral.StripLayout(value!)).IsEqualTo(expected);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherFsTests.cs b/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherFsTests.cs
index 5726f10a..86350c0b 100644
--- a/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherFsTests.cs
+++ b/src/DiffEngine.Tests/InlinePatcherFsTests.cs
@@ -28,6 +28,34 @@ await Assert.That(newSource).IsEqualTo(
             Test("    Verifier.Verify(15).Snapshot(\"new\").ToTask() |> Async.AwaitTask"));
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// A hand-written triple-quoted literal, content starting on the opening line. F# has no raw
+    /// string, so the layout is only a convention and a literal not written to it still holds a
+    /// perfectly good value. Rejecting those made them unpatchable: the anchor an F# producer
+    /// sends is OriginalValue (FS0202 means there is no CallerArgumentExpression to send), and
+    /// what the parser read back had to be able to equal it.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Test]
+    public async Task ReplaceHandWrittenTripleQuotedLiteral()
+    {
+        var literal = "\"\"\"{\n  \"a\": 1\n}\"\"\"";
+        var source = Test($"    Verifier.Verify(15).Snapshot({literal}).ToTask() |> Async.AwaitTask");
+
+        var status = TryApply(
+            source,
+            5,
+            InlinePatchMode.Set,
+            null,
+            "new",
+            out var newSource,
+            out var reason,
+            originalValue: FsStringLiteral.StripLayout("{\n  \"a\": 1\n}"));
+
+        await Assert.That(status).IsEqualTo(PatchStatus.Applied);
+        await Assert.That(reason).IsEmpty();
+        await Assert.That(newSource).IsEqualTo(
+            Test("    Verifier.Verify(15).Snapshot(\"new\").ToTask() |> Async.AwaitTask"));
+    }
     // The same shape C# writes: the content indented under the call, with the first line and the
     // closing delimiter's indentation there for the reader to take back off
     [Test]
diff --git a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/CsStringLiteral.cs b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/CsStringLiteral.cs
index 8d653087..64eb56d6 100644
--- a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/CsStringLiteral.cs
+++ b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/CsStringLiteral.cs
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static bool TryScanLiteral(string text, int start, out string? value, out int en
         var quotes = StringLiteral.QuoteRunLength(text, index);
         if (quotes >= 3)
         {
-            return StringLiteral.TryScanMultiLine(text, index, quotes, out value, out end);
+            return StringLiteral.TryScanMultiLine(text, index, quotes, true, out value, out end);
         }
 
         if (quotes == 2)
diff --git a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/FsStringLiteral.cs b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/FsStringLiteral.cs
index 1a65e532..d2fc4666 100644
--- a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/FsStringLiteral.cs
+++ b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/FsStringLiteral.cs
@@ -85,9 +85,10 @@ public static string StripLayout(string value) =>
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Parses an F# string literal expression back to the snapshot it holds: triple-quoted
-    /// ("""..."""), with the layout taken off, verbatim (@"...") and regular ("..."), which carry
-    /// their value as it is. Returns false for interpolated strings, byte strings, concatenations,
-    /// or any other expression. Newlines in the returned value are normalized to \n.
+    /// ("""..."""), with the layout taken off when it is written to that convention and
+    /// verbatim when it is not; verbatim (@"...") and regular ("..."), which carry their value as
+    /// it is. Returns false for interpolated strings, byte strings, concatenations, or any other
+    /// expression. Newlines in the returned value are normalized to \n.
     /// </summary>
     public static bool TryParse(string expression, [NotNullWhen(true)] out string? value) =>
         StringLiteral.TryParse(expression, TryScanLiteral, out value);
@@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ static bool TryScanLiteral(string text, int start, out string? value, out int en
         {
             // F# reads the closing delimiter as exactly three quotes, so a longer run is content
             // it cannot hold and never something this wrote
-            return StringLiteral.TryScanMultiLine(text, index, 3, out value, out end);
+            return StringLiteral.TryScanMultiLine(text, index, 3, false, out value, out end);
         }
 
         if (quotes == 2)
diff --git a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/StringLiteral.cs b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/StringLiteral.cs
index cf11fc38..b3fbc4cf 100644
--- a/src/DiffEngine/Inline/StringLiteral.cs
+++ b/src/DiffEngine/Inline/StringLiteral.cs
@@ -184,8 +184,24 @@ public static int QuoteRunLength(string text, int index)
     /// <summary>
     /// Scans a multi-line literal opening at <paramref name="start"/> with a run of
     /// <paramref name="quotes"/>, and returns what it holds with the layout taken off.
+    /// <para>
+    /// <paramref name="layoutRequired"/> is what separates the two languages. A C# raw string not
+    /// in the layout shape does not compile, so content that fails the strip is a literal this
+    /// never wrote and rejecting it is right. F#'s triple-quoted literal is plain verbatim text
+    /// and the layout is only a convention, so a hand-written one - content starting on the
+    /// opening line, which is the idiomatic shape - is a perfectly good literal whose value is
+    /// simply what it says. Rejecting those made them unpatchable: TryParse said "not a string
+    /// literal" while StripLayout, which is what a test library runs the value through, returned
+    /// the same text unchanged, so the producer's OriginalValue could never match.
+    /// </para>
     /// </summary>
-    public static bool TryScanMultiLine(string text, int start, int quotes, out string? value, out int end)
+    public static bool TryScanMultiLine(
+        string text,
+        int start,
+        int quotes,
+        bool layoutRequired,
+        out string? value,
+        out int end)
     {
         value = null;
         end = start;
@@ -224,7 +240,21 @@ public static bool TryScanMultiLine(string text, int start, int quotes, out stri
             return true;
         }
 
-        return TryStripLayout(SourceLanguage.NormalizeNewlines(content), out value);
+        var normalized = SourceLanguage.NormalizeNewlines(content);
+        if (TryStripLayout(normalized, out value))
+        {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        if (layoutRequired)
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        // Not in the layout shape, so there is no layout to take off and the content is the
+        // value. The same answer StripLayout gives for the same text
+        value = normalized;
+        return true;
     }
 
     /// <summary>