Formatting with Markdown
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A Former User last edited by
[Modded out as it is not helpful to the discussion. Use your own thread and stop cross posting]
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Four spaces ("sub"lines) within a list don't seem to make any difference to the output.
This is entirely as expected since Markdown and (HTML for that matter) cuts all whitespace (spaces, tabs and line breaks) down to a single space, unless marked up otherwise.
I meant what?
You said earlier about using such "4 spaced lines" to show codes in this Markdown, right?
Then I went to another 'forum' with a similar markup (media.info) and tried to show some input there. You know what? Only the "four-spaced line" worked with some.-->
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ruario last edited by
Ok, emphasis works now and we have changed the help page to have instructions like those I wrote above. We also link them from the note below the comments input field. Hope that helps everyone.
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ruario last edited by
The emphasis thing was just a stupid <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS<abbr> typo. Previously I thought (assumed) it was down to the software we use for converting Markdown to HTML. However, I was viewing the source code of a page on the forums where I tried to use it and saw that
<em>tags were actually present.Basically we had
<em>set tofont-style:inherit. Of course, within comments on the forum<em>'s parent will almost always be a<p>tag or something else withfont-style:normal, rather thanfont-style:italicas you would expect for<em>. Thus, no Italics.Ah well, fixed now!
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ruario last edited by
It will be interesting to see how many posts suddenly get emphasis, that was there all along but never displayed until now.
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Deleted User last edited by
@ruario Emoticons menu don't show up when editing a post, check that please.
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ruario last edited by
I will test with this post.
EDIT: I test with IE and Opera, I click on emoticons icon to show the others but nothing happens.
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A Former User last edited by admin
I reported it broken on October 24th.
I've not been aware of it working since then.https://forums.opera.com/topic/6022/emoticons-on-edits
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A Former User last edited by admin
@sgunhouse:
Steve, try using four spaces starting the line here:idea: -
blackbird71 last edited byThere are now some usernames in the forums with hyphens in the middle (eg: gwen-dragon). However, when I try to flag that with an ampersand in the usual manner to create a link to the user, the result is to only flag the first half of the username... and this breaks the correct link clickability. My understanding is that the ampersand flags the text that immediately follows as being html (for Markdown interpretation)... but the hyphen seems to end that interpretation process midstream. What is the best way to treat hyphenated usernames preceded by an ampersand, within a post made in Markdown?
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A Former User last edited by
- It's not the ampersand.
- Ruario has already explained it's not exactly the Markdown.
- The thing stays anyway... :rolleyes:
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blackbird71 last edited by
Hmm. Perhaps my brain isn't on top of things today... but I don't get what you're saying. I want to render a username as a profile link in a post, like @joshl, by simply typing the
ampersand@ and the username as I've always done here. That works. But if I try that same thing with a username like gwen-dragon, I get @gwen-dragon... which, if you click on the red highlighted portion, takes you to an error message instead of their profile page.Edited to add: OK... now I see part of what you're saying. I misnamed the symbol I use - indeed it's not an "ampersand" (which is & ), but instead a @ symbol. But the problem remains for the @ symbol, whatever its correct name. My question remains: how do I make a hyphenated username to work correctly as a profile link with that @ symbol?
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ruario last edited by
Forget it, It doesn't work.
Or really? @gwen-dragon
[@gwen-dragon](/profile/gwen-dragon)Yeah, ok you wouldn't want to do that every time. I agree it seems very broken!
P.S. @ is an At symbol.
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ruario last edited by
What did you do to make it work?
I wrote the HTML code I used in my previous posting.
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linuxmint7 last edited by
@ruario That's definitely a mouthful O.O. As you say, it's not something one would wish to do every time.
Using the Bold formatting to highlight a persons user-name could be a quicker temporary option (for now). Although not click-able, it still makes it easier to see who someone is referring to.
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blackbird71 last edited by
Thanks @ruario. Perhaps it'd be simpler just to get 'hyphenated' users to change their usernames...
