Formatting with Markdown

[ruario]

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.

[ruario]

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 to font-style:inherit. Of course, within comments on the forum <em>'s parent will almost always be a <p> tag or something else with font-style:normal, rather than font-style:italic as you would expect for <em>. Thus, no Italics.

Ah well, fixed now!

[ruario]

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.

[Deleted User]

Deleted User last edited by

@ruario Emoticons menu don't show up when editing a post, check that please.

[ruario]

ruario last edited by

They do for me @sidneyneto

[ruario]

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.

[ruario]

ruario last edited by

Ok yeah I get it now. Was this working previously?

[Deleted User]

Deleted User last edited by

Yes.

[A Former User]

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

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by admin

@sgunhouse:
Steve, try using four spaces starting the line here:idea:

[blackbird71]

blackbird71 last edited by

There 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?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

1. It's not the ampersand.
2. Ruario has already explained it's not exactly the Markdown.

• The thing stays anyway... :rolleyes:

[blackbird71]

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?

[linuxmint7]

linuxmint7 last edited by

Forget it, It doesn't work.

[ruario]

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.

[Deleted User]

Deleted User last edited by

What did you do to make it work?

[ruario]

ruario last edited by

What did you do to make it work?

I wrote the HTML code I used in my previous posting.

[linuxmint7]

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.

[blackbird71]

blackbird71 last edited by

Thanks @ruario. Perhaps it'd be simpler just to get 'hyphenated' users to change their usernames...

[Deleted User]

Deleted User last edited by

Perhaps it'd be simpler just to get 'hyphenated' users to change their usernames...

@blackbird71 Sorry, but my GwenDragon can not be reactivated here, so i had to use Gwen-Dragon

@ruario The autoformatting of the Markdown implementation in forum does not work user freindlich, what a pitty.