Loomio
Wed 11 Feb 2015 4:41AM

Markdown everywhere!

N naught101 Public Seen by 78

At the moment, markdown can be used in discussions, and comments on discussions. It can't be used in proposals, group descriptions, nor in position statements. I can understand the latter perhaps, because you want to keep position statements minimal, but markdown would be really useful in Proposals (bullet points, tables, etc.). I can't really think of a reason to not have it available in group descriptions..

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Alanna Irving Wed 11 Feb 2015 4:51AM

This will be in Loomio 1.0 full release :)

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Steve Phillips / @elimisteve Wed 11 Feb 2015 4:53AM

+1

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Pierre-Yves Sat 21 Feb 2015 10:23AM

Perhaps you should also consider removing markdown from the rss/atom feeds (or to make in parallel feeds converted in plain text or eventually in html) because current feeds can hardly be read in most (all?) RSS feeds readers and it makes it hard to integrate on web sites.

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James Kiesel Sat 21 Feb 2015 7:57PM

I'm going to make a github issue for this if no one else beats me to it; I think that's something we should address sooner rather than later.

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naught101 Mon 23 Feb 2015 2:23AM

@pierrerabourdin If the markdown is just left as plain text, and not converted to HTML, would that be ok? Because then you'd still get nice things like bullet lists and headers and emphasis.

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naught101 Mon 23 Feb 2015 2:26AM

Ahh, sorry, I meant @pierreyves - Loomio's username autocomplete still needs some work :P

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Denjello Mon 23 Feb 2015 2:29AM

You can't remove markdownt because it is plain text, and parsing pseudo-structured plain text is just no possible 100% of the time.

:(

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Pierre-Yves Mon 23 Feb 2015 6:04PM

@denjello parsing markdown should be possible 100% of the time: it needs to be converted into html for the browser ! (also I did a quick search in google and I found plenty of scripts to convert markdown into text or html but I haven't tried any)

@naught101 actually no... my proposal wasn't very clever it must be html in all cases. Plain text may help a little (it's better to loose the formatting for bold and italic rather than seeing the asterisks/underscores but for a list it would always be horrible :

either it would look like this if the bullets are removed :
Item1Item2Item3
or like this if the bullets are left out :
* Item1* Item2* Item3