Formatting text (e.g. markdown)

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Formatting text (e.g. markdown) #9

Closed ralphtheninja closed 1 year ago

ralphtheninja commented 5 years ago

It would be nice if all applications had similar functionality for writing/interpreting formatted text.

I propose the following:

*bold* for bold
_italic_ for italic
backtics for code

Anything else?

Maybe we could pick the same type of markdown style and just pass a message text through it to generate appropriate formatting, e.g. html for desktop (not sure what's appropriate in an android or iOS context)

dignifiedquire commented 5 years ago

if we do this, I would strongly argue for github flavored markdown, it is so engrained for many people and has shown that it works across a large community

r10s commented 4 years ago

ftr: meanwhile, this seems to be pretty stable documented, include source code snippets etc. at https://commonmark.org - github, reddit, stackoverflow subscribed to this spec.

Simon-Laux commented 1 year ago

discussion is on the forum now: https://support.delta.chat/t/markdown-support-in-chat/159

we would probably do the markdown via the message parser, so discussion about the spec should go to issues there or do a direct pr to change the spec document: https://github.com/deltachat/message-parser/blob/master/spec.md