Follow up from [forge:site-support:#3470] which is a blocker for the project "hsqldb".
It is not just code snippets. Technical exchanges have a high inline code and expression content. For example someone might type: "when x > 2 the color is user-defined" but actually using symbols that get confused with markdown symbols. Users need to enter their posts quickly without having to add markup / markdown code. It is best to have markdown off / on as a configuration property for the whole forum or for individual posts. The default behavior should be plain text with no markdown. SourceForge of course enhance your markdown support in the future for whoever wants to use it. If you look at https://sourceforge.net/projects/hsqldb/forums/forum/73674/topic/8714893 you see a simple example with lots of special symbols. Other examples have a wider variety of special symbols. --- ** [tickets:#6822] Option to bypass or escape markdown** **Status:** open **Created:** Thu Oct 31, 2013 08:41 PM UTC by Dave Brondsema **Last Updated:** Wed Dec 04, 2013 03:02 PM UTC **Owner:** nobody All textareas take markdown input, but if you don't realize that and just type or paste something (e.g. code sample, log file) then certain chars may convert into markdown syntax and not render as actually intended. A checkbox near preview & formatting help buttons could be added. (Maybe expand to a full toolbar to help with syntax some day). Changing the data storage for every artifact and the render calls for every artifact is a lot of work and makes the whole system a bit more complex. If we can use markdown syntax to escape the whole content of the entry, that could work out pretty well I think. Requested via [forge:feature-requests:#134] and [forge:site-support:#3470] --- Sent from sourceforge.net because allura-dev@incubator.apache.org is subscribed to https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/tickets/ To unsubscribe from further messages, a project admin can change settings at https://sourceforge.net/p/allura/admin/tickets/options. Or, if this is a mailing list, you can unsubscribe from the mailing list.
