sparksuite / simplemde-markdown-editor

A simple, beautiful, and embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor. Delightful editing for beginners and experts alike. Features built-in autosaving and spell checking.
https://simplemde.com
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Add option to ignore intra-word '*' #783

Open kakra opened 4 years ago

kakra commented 4 years ago

In German, there is a modern trend of writing gendered word-endings in a gender-neutral form by placing an asterisk inside the word, i.e. Teilnehmer*innen (which translates to attendees or participants but we have that word in male and female variant Teilnehmer and Teilnehmerinnen).

Thus, SimpleMDE should support disabling intra-word asterisk syntax for easy typing of this variant. Currently, a user would need to type Teilnehmer\*innen which isn't an easy task of teaching our users.