Markdown support for descriptions?

[niccokunzmann]

I wonder what people think about this: Usually, descriptions that are just text are displayed as normal text without any markup such as line breaks. However, it could be nice to maintain line breaks. Markdown allows such formatting and more. We could run the event descriptions through a markdown renderer and maintain and add certain formattings like:

• line breaks
• bullet points

What are your thoughts on this one? Should this be configurable for example?

These could be the choices one has:

• text - convert description to text, never use alternative HTML description, preserve line breaks
• stripped HTML - remove clutter and bad content from HTML, use alternative HTML description if available
• stripped HTML + Markdown - render descriptions as markdown and HTML, use alternative HTML description if available
• Raw HTML - directly embed the description - use this if you trust the ICS source as much as your website under administrator login

Related:

• 300 for the alternative HTML description

What are your thoughts on this?

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[vmario89]

At least my smartphone app, as well as thunderbird seem to support formatting text in html or markdown markup:

there are some glitches, like the app does not render bold.

hmm...^^