On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 1:08 PM Jonathan Gutow <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 2:45:32 PM UTC-5, Jason Grout wrote:
>>
>> Very interesting discussion. Just curious, did you look at Prosemirror
>> for lightweight WYSIWYG editing for markdown cells?
>>
>
> I did briefly. It may deserve more investigation. It was meant to provide
> an intermediate between true WYSIWYG and markdown. It may be what should be
> used as the editor for markdown cells. A key is that I think there is some
> value to the markdown cells being a place you can just type away and get
> out formatted text. This is useful for people who are good typist and know
> markdown well. There is an example
> <https://prosemirror.net/examples/markdown/> on the Prosemirror site
> where the user can switch between text markdown and what they call WYSIWYM.
>
> After I get full rich text editing working and ported to Jupyter lab, I
> might be convinced to work on getting Prosemirror working on markdown
> cells. Is there somebody else who might work on this?
>
> It did not look like Prosemirror could be used for full WYSIWYG rich text
> editing. Did I overlook something?
>
>
I don't think it offers full WYSIWYG rich editing (that an html editor
would). It's a simplified solution that may well work for many people
(since you were talking about a solution that was really simple).

Jason

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