In this forum, we can use markdown, bbcode or html to format with. I get a reminder every time I write a reply! It would be nice if we had similar in iNat comments etc, as it is clumsy to have to type italic tags around taxa so often! I had gotten so used to typing the tags, that it was not until th…

I suspect those icons are familiar to almost all web users and don’t need translation, but as a native English speaker I might be assuming too much. I think you’re saying that adding markdown support might change the display of existing comment text, which could be a problem. An option to toggl…

Most use of markdown is going to look like I **really** think this is *Amsinckia*. which doesn’t look too weird to me. But yes, we could add a toggle. I don’t love that option b/c it means markdown works in some places but not all places, and every single place where you can add text we would have…

Checking an example of markdown , I agree that there should be few instances where unformatted markdown would be confusing. Taking that into account, a few weeks or months with a small percentage of users taking advantage of markdown doesn’t seem like it will generate large amounts of ambiguous cont…

[image] rupertclayton: will content already formatted with HTML tags continue to show correctly after this change? It should not change. We have way too much existing HTML to abandon it.

[image] kueda: Most use of markdown is going to look like I **really** think this is *Amsinckia*. which doesn’t look too weird to me I concur, raw markdown seems self-explanatory when a reader considers the contextual clues. A toggle could generate confusion for those who do not know what m…

[image] kueda: Supporting markdown will screw up some text that is unintentional markdown. Is that ok? Standard markdown has a simple escaping mechanism for disabling unwanted markdown. So your example could be fixed like this: 1\. Hairy patella 4\. Red tail 18\. Falcate toes Will the iNat …

[image] bazwal: Will the iNat implementation support that? We’re not going to write our own Markdown parser, so yes, we should support that if any of the parsers we use support full standard Markdown. The problem isn’t really how to not write new Markdown, it’s what to do about existing unint…

[image] kueda: The problem isn’t really how to not write new Markdown, it’s what to do about existing unintentional Markdown. Yes - I was just suggesting that they could be fixed manually by the comment owners, since there’s unlikely to be many of them. A programming solution isn’t really req…

Well done, thanks @kueda Possibly not a bug, but something to note. If using the “quote” button you need to insert a line space to escape it. Otherwise the whole comment is a quote. Would prefer that quoted material be the same size text as the rest of the comment. Now it’s a larger font - if q…

[image] krancmm: If using the “quote” button you need to insert a line space to escape it. Yeah, I think that’s just one of the quirks of Markdown formatting . [image] krancmm: Would prefer that quoted material be the same size text as the rest of the comment I’m not a huge fan of this…

Easier access to text formatting in comments

Feature Requests

tiwane July 8, 2020, 11:23pm 25

You might have noticed, but if you haven’t, this is now live on observation pages. If you find bugs, let us know.

Two underscores incorrectly italicise text?

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Easier access to text formatting in comments

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