Hello Fred, I think you're anticipating that Markdown will interfere much more
than it actually does. As you may have noticed from your own inline example of
"when x > 2 the color is user-defined", there isn't anything there at all
that's being affected by markdown formatting.
Further, from the example you cite, it actually comes out quite nicely with the
Markdown (dare I say even better than unformatted?). I've copy/pasted the text
from that example, which you'll see below:
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Given the following:
CREATE TABLE tab ( name VARCHAR_IGNORECASE(255)) INSERT INTO tab
VALUES('fileß.txt') <--- Note the 'ß' ! the query: SELECT * FROM tab WHERE name
LIKE '%txt%'
returns an empty result set! I would have expected that 'fileß.txt' is
returned. Changing the query to:
SELECT * FROM tab WHERE name LIKE '%tx%' <--- Note the final 't' is missing
here
returns 'fileß.txt'!
With name defined as VARCHAR (instead of VARCHAR_IGNORECASE) the first query
works as expected.
Is this a bug or some misunderstanding?
(using HSQL 2.3.0)
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Of course, we can certainly come up with examples where unintended formatting
can occur. In particular, the use of \*'s which you noted in
[forge:site-support:#3470] would probably be the most common case. But in my
experience, the number of incidences of unintended formatting are relatively
rare and are IMO worth the trade-off (though, I do appreciate that I encounter
different text patterns than you regularly do).
Other more common issues are when folks paste in snippets that start with #'s
or >'s, but those should be mitigated by options presented in this ticket.
That said, it would be useful to hear your thoughts on our alternative
solutions. Like some of the ones Dave mentions in his last comment.
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** [tickets:#6822] Option to bypass or escape markdown**
**Status:** open
**Created:** Thu Oct 31, 2013 08:41 PM UTC by Dave Brondsema
**Last Updated:** Thu Dec 05, 2013 06:26 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
All textareas take markdown input, but if you don't realize that and just type
or paste something (e.g. code sample, log file) then certain chars may convert
into markdown syntax and not render as actually intended.
A checkbox near preview & formatting help buttons could be added. (Maybe
expand to a full toolbar to help with syntax some day). Changing the data
storage for every artifact and the render calls for every artifact is a lot of
work and makes the whole system a bit more complex. If we can use markdown
syntax to escape the whole content of the entry, that could work out pretty
well I think.
Requested via [forge:feature-requests:#134] and [forge:site-support:#3470]
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