Markdown tests

Superscript was reported as ^not working^

Lemmy-ui uses markdown-it-sup, so I think superscript should work on a single word like this: ^superscript . It won't work if there is a space in the superscript text: ^this wont work^ . Each word must be enclosed with superscript tags: ^this ^should ^work

screenshot for those not currently using a web browser
- Aside from showing the right ^ it works
- Not enclosed, just the caret in front for each word. Spaces break it, which sucks. Needs to be one enclosed thing like bold and italics.
I installed Sync just to test this. To me, that's displaying with "not" superscript but not "working". On web, it just doesn't work at all (this is due to the markdown library lemmy-ui uses not allowing spaces).

Suspect ~subscript will~ also not work. Curious about ~~struck-out text~~.
- Okay subscript didn't work on lemmy-ui or Sync. Struck out is fine.
  
  How about single-word _subscript? edit: yup, works in lemmy-ui, not in Sync.
'not' is superscripted in Eternity for me

Code blocks in quotes appear a little funky.

Some line of code


> Extended quote
> ```
More code

Further extended quote

Spoiler formatting was a big one, Lemmy wants to do it like this, I think:

Some paragraph text.

Spoiler Title

Some spoiler elements

Other paragraph text.

EDIT: the main issue being Sync not displaying the spoiler title properly

I'd also like to mention that the way it's done in the community about page for S4L doesn't seem to work:

1- No advertising or spam.

All types of advertising and spam are restricted in this community.

Edit: this is so confusing. It doesn't work in the about section, but looks fine in my web interface. I don't even know what to believe!
See also this exchange: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/9667987

Testing embedded gifs

Works when viewing this comment page but when looking at your profile page it's blank. Is this expected?

!spoiler spoiler Test Comment

with line breaks!<


with line breaks!<```

Saw this comment in the wild which does not appear correct in Sync.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/8334366

In Sync it looks like this:

![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a660f68f-f78b-41a8-ae15-17a8cd896c3e.jpeg)

On Lemmy via browser, it looks like this:

![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ed917b91-cdf6-401a-92e0-01462790b8ce.jpeg)

+1 for this, would be nice to have proper lemmy style spoilers.

Not sure if code blocks are supported at all (I'll test using this comment); I know inline code strings are, but blocks I'm not sure.

Either way, in the editor, I'm missing buttons for both inserting inline code and a code block.

Speaking of messages, I can't seem to find a way to mark a message/comment reply as unread. I would like that very much.

#!/bin/fish
#Testing a block of code
if true
  printf "yes"
else
  printf "no"
end

That reminds me: dollar signs don't appear in code blocks.
- That's a nasty one. Hard to paste shell code 😅

Not sure if this is the right place, but in the menu for sharing a community, the format is https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy - any way to have that be !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world instead?

I believe that's the preferred format, although I'm not sure if it's universal across Lemmy and other apps. Both ways work in Sync.

Tricky as sharing it to someone without sync might not work well.
- sharing it to someone without sync
  
  The bang syntax will work much better for anyone on Lemmy itself, regardless of which instance they're on or which client they use, while the URL syntax is better when users want to share a link to a community off-platform.
- Ah, fair point. Maybe a concatenated version with both formats? Dunno. Not a huge issue to be fair :-)

Any progress being made here? I was really hoping that not being able to view certain communities such as !newbrunswick@lemmy.ca would be considering bad enough of a bug to bring a little development back.

Yup. I'm in the process of ripping out the old markdown processor.
- Hey! Good to hear from you. Hope you took some good time for yourself. I appreciate the progress update on the merkdown.

The bullet points in my comment here render correctly in the official Lemmy frontend, but not in Sync: https://lemmy.world/comment/6271596

I've noticed that Sync requires two newlines between the preceding sentence and the bulleted list, but the Lemmy website does not, nor does Eternity. That appears to be the problem with the list you posted.

This might not make a bulleted list in Sync:

one

two

three

This should make a bulleted list in Sync:

one

two

three

Source:

This might not make a bulleted list in Sync: - one - two - three This should make a bulleted list in Sync: - one - two - three

Yes, that was the case. Sync screenshot:
- This is an example of a bulleted list item that is long enough to likely wrap onto a second line on most phones.
  
  This is another bulleted list item that is intended to do the same thing in order to see how readable they are together.
  
  This is a third bulleted list item that has an additional line break between the previous list item.
  
  This is an example of a numbered list item that is long enough to likely wrap onto a second line on most phones.
  
  This is another numbered list item that is intended to do the same thing in order to see how readable they are together.
  
  This is a third numbered list item that has an additional line break between the previous list item.
  
  These don't seem very readable to me, making dense walls of text. I feel like bullets and numbers should indent the paragraph to more easily see the separation between list items.
I think a way to make them work is to add two spaces after each line. Here's a test...

Line one

Line two

Line three

Hopefully that works.

It did :-)
- That's a placebo and it's not doing anything. Bulleted lists never need two spaces at the end of each line. You only use two spaces at the end of line that are not in bulleted or numbered lists.
  
  The bug is that Sync requires a blank line before you start the bulleted list. The Lemmy website doesn't require that.
  
  Here is your comment with no spaces at the end of each line:
  
  spaces after each line. Here's a test...
  
  Line one
  
  Line two
  
  Line three
  
  See? It still works fine.
  
  Now here's an example of what two spaces do.
  
  The first sentence below has a new line after each word but no spaces. The second sentence has two spaces and a new line after each word. The spaces force a line break to be rendered.
  
  This Is Not A List
  
  This
  Is
  Not
  A
  List
  
  Source of the above:
  
  This Is Not A List This Is Not A List
  
  This feature of markdown was implemented to prevent text from emails and such from wrapping in funny ways when pasted into a comment (or whatever). Old emails often force line breaks after 80 columns of text and it looks goofy when viewed in a modern web browser if those line breaks are kept, so they are ignored. To preserve the line breaks, you add two spaces at the end of each line. That or you might prefer to write paragraphs with a hard wrap at some column, but other people shouldn't have to suffer that.
  
  Adding the two spaces to lines in a bulleted list does nothing useful, but it also doesn't break it, so of course it works.
- So I know that will make it look correct in sync, but I guess what I'm getting at is that the comment is an example that looks right in other clients but NOT in sync.
  
  Sync should show the list correctly like other clients do.

Markdown in the media bias bot doesn't work as visibly intended.

See: https://lemmy.zip/post/20009358

Yep, I have this issue too.
- Came here to report the new fact-check bot
  
  Example of failed post

No text image links in post bodies. Usually see them in the format [](link here) don't show up at all.

Do you have an example?
- I think they mean they want a button to embed an image link like we have for regular links
- Actually other person got it wrong, but I can confirm that it is fixed in the latest version. I don't see examples of this very often, but I did run across one today.

I'm not sure if you're still monitoring this or if I should make new thread.

I just encountered a comment where they included a link with brackets in the url and it didn't parse for me in Sync. I assumed it needed escape characters , which did make it a working link for me in app, but I got curious and checked the website and the original link worked fine there. Maybe the Lemmy web ui will escape characters in links by default?

While this isn't strictly a markdown issue, it is slightly related. Link domain indicators are handled specially for Reddit, and they probably shouldn't be.

This is a link to a Lemmy post. Sync appends (lemmy.world) after it.

This is a link to a Reddit post. Sync appends (/comments/) after it.

This is a link to an old.reddit post. Sync appends (/comments/) after it.

This is a link to a Lemmy profile. Sync appends (lemmy.world) after it.

This is a link to a Reddit profile. Sync appends (u/ljdawson) after it.

I acknowledge that there would be technical difficulties in trying to make Sync identify ActivityPub users and posts, and the current implementation of showing the domain name is good, in my opinion.

Reddit links should probably display the Reddit domain name, however. These links are external to Sync and would open a new browser page, and it's more informative for the user to know the domain of the link they are opening.

This is a spoiler message that I unhid before editing.

>!This is a spoiler message that I unhid before editing.!<

!This is a spoiler message that I left hidden before editing!<

>!This is a spoiler message that I left hidden before editing!<

This is the edit.

Not sure I'd count this as a markdown bug per se, but it seems that when you un-hide a spoiler and then edit your post, it treats the post as if the spoiler had never been there in the first place.

$$f(x) = 5$$

$a = b$

Furigana (a feature of Japanese text) is supported by Lemmy on the web but doesn't work in Sync. It's not a part of core markdown but Lemmy uses a plugin.

Here's an example post showing how to use it. https://programming.dev/post/530608

Here's what it should look like:

And here's Sync:

Footnotes are weird? Maybe this post is weird?

https://lemmy.world/comment/8880898

Sync view:

Mobile web view:

Device information

Sync version: v24.03.26-14:56    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: true    
View type: Slides    
Push enabled: false    

Device: d2q    
Model: samsung SM-N975U    
Android: 12

!Spoiler tags!<

Don't work in the standard Lemmy way

Markdown is not respected in post preview (can't attach an image apparently, but many posts on news communities will have a quote)

Why can't you attach an image? If it's your instance you can upload elsewhere and embed with:

![](img url here)

Post preview doesn't respect markdown

Hi!

Moderator from !perth@aussie.zone here.

Just been playing around using the spoiler tags as makeshift drop down lists in the sidebar for the Perth/WesternAustralia community, and noticed the 'spoiler' markdown formatting isn't recognised in the 'about' page on the Sync app. :)

Funny stuff is happening with the spoilers in this comment, they aren't rendering as spoilers on the first two but tapping the actual spoilers removes the broken spoiler characters around the first two lines? Really strange: https://lemmy.world/comment/10822445

Posts are not being marked as read, unless the comments are opened.

Several of the Wikipedia links in the post below contain parentheses in the URL. They work in the web front-end but not in Sync.

https://lemmy.ca/post/24972740

This in-line animation doesn't work but when you tap on it there preview is fine

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/12956813