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    • ruario
      ruario last edited by

      @joshl No, just type \`

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      • blackbird71
        blackbird71 last edited by

        ...
        Once again it is the exact same problem _ being interpreted as emphasis. You will notice _ is removed from the links. The bit between two links with underscores would have been emphasised.

        Slaps head! Wow, my brain's neurons must be firing slow today! Suddenly I see what you're getting at. I forgot that the underscore symbol is a Markdown parsing key... and two of them denote the text in between for embolding.

        Frankly, this is one of the big gripes I have with Markdown: seemingly ordinary language symbols (and so many different ones, at that) act as triggers for parsing actions that only occur if a duplicate/paired symbol appears later on. I much prefer the systems where certain symbols are simply 'reserved' for parsing functionality, such that if only one appears, a parsing error immediately occurs before the message is accepted by the server and generates a corresponding error reply to the poster.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by admin

          You bastard!
          1, you edited my comment and didn't indicate it'd been edited!

          <del title="edit">Second - see for yourself!! 😛 :/~~O'k, you've seen...

          Well, for the record, my original input was just

          `<http://forums.opera.com/post/59190>`

          (now I tinkered a bit more to reproduce my input with those "backlashes")

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          • ruario
            ruario last edited by

            You bastard! 1, you edited my comment and didn't indicate it'd been edited!

            No I was testing. It is back exactly as it was.

            Putting Markdown links within `` (code tags) does occasionally seem to trigger "oddness" where the interpretter tries to do you a favour by escaping but it is quite a corner case. Just use &amp;lt; and &amp;gt; in this specific case.

            In fact, whenever you find things tricky you can just use HTML. That is one of the nice things about Markdown. Just can use HTML directly. In fact you could use it for all your posts.

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              Just use &lt; and &gt; in this specific case.

              What do you mean - how to use it? And why?
              In my "<kbd>" there weren't any gts!😕

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              • ruario
                ruario last edited by admin

                Frankly, this is one of the big gripes I have with Markdown

                So just write your entire posts in HTML.

                P.S. I corrected https://forums.opera.com/post/59149 for you

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                • ruario
                  ruario last edited by

                  What do you mean

                  Reload. That specific example took some doing! 😉

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    In fact, whenever you find things tricky you can just use HTML. That is one of the nice things about Markdown. Just can use HTML directly. In fact you could use it for all your posts.

                    Wrong!
                    If you read the previous pages here, you'd figure out that all of the HTML 'coding' elements have already been tested - they do not work as one could hope them to.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      Reload. That specific example took some doing!

                      I ain't gonna learn all those character "codes" by heart. Even if I knew how or where one would need them*:P*

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                      • ruario
                        ruario last edited by

                        @joshl Not in my experience. I use "<kbd>" in many of posts for example.

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                        • blackbird71
                          blackbird71 last edited by admin

                          ...
                          P.S. I corrected https://forums.opera.com/post/59149 for you

                          Thank you!

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                          • A Former User
                            A Former User last edited by

                            @joshl Not in my experience. I use "<kbd>" in many of posts for example.

                            You use - I test*:P*
                            Yourour kbd doesn't kbd everything (in Russian it sounded much funnier🇪🇭).

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                            • ruario
                              ruario last edited by

                              @joshl Since you obviously like this kind of thing, I would make sure you read the entire syntax page, rather than the basics page we link to below (assuming you haven't already done this).

                              The syntax page, explains the corner cases and details of embedding HTML more completely.

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User last edited by

                                Ruario, by the way, can I use some "character encoder" or something?
                                I saw you just use those "labada" replacements*:)*

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                                • A Former User
                                  A Former User last edited by

                                  Ruario, would you please stop *@*ing me? I'm the starter of this thread, so I get "nots" anyway.
                                  😛

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                                  • ruario
                                    ruario last edited by

                                    can I use some "character encoder" or something?

                                    Is this what you are looking for?

                                    http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref

                                    P.S. I didn't know you actually received a notification. I don't perhaps because I am an employee or some other weirdness with my account.

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                                    • A Former User
                                      A Former User last edited by

                                      @joshl Since you obviously like this kind of thing, I would make sure you read the entire syntax page, rather than the basics page we link to below (assuming you haven't already done this).
                                      The syntax page, explains the corner cases and details of embedding HTML more completely.

                                      It's all nice, but personally, I'd prefer that/if the basics would work as they should do - like those "emphasis" and other things ("promised" in that page every user can link to).

                                      can I use some "character encoder" or something?

                                      Is this what you are looking for?
                                      http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref

                                      I'll take a look.
                                      Though for now, for most purposes those "backlashes" are enough.

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                                      • ruario
                                        ruario last edited by

                                        It's all nice, but personally, I'd prefer that/if the basics would work as they should do

                                        They do with the exception of "emphasis". Most of the other stuff that initially seems odd, makes sense if you read the syntax guide.

                                        In any case, you can just write HTML, with the limitation that only a subset is made available, roughly the same tags you would get with Markdown, plus a few extra.

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                                        • ruario
                                          ruario last edited by

                                          An example of a basic usage you claimed did not work was numbered lists but they work just fine

                                          1. First
                                          2. Second
                                          3. Third

                                          The problem seems to be that you left blank lines between items but the guide specifically tells you not to do this

                                          If you put blank lines between items, you’ll get <p> tags for the list item text.

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                                          • A Former User
                                            A Former User last edited by

                                            I had an impression that that was not "only emphasis". Maybe I'll revisit this thread from its beginning to refresh that "impression".
                                            And to have it clear, this thread was started in order for other users to obtain basic knowledge how to make their contribution nice and tidy.

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