- **status**: review --> in-progress - **Reviewer**: Dave Brondsema - **Comment**:
I am so excited for this. First, I just noticed https://github.com/NextStepWebs/simplemde-markdown-editor/#whats-changed have you seen that? Looks like some nice improvements: https://github.com/NextStepWebs/simplemde-markdown-editor/#whats-changed Any idea how easy it'd be to switch over? Too bad we didn't see it sooner :( My brief impressions is that SimpleMDE is better maintained (plus new features and fixes) so it probably would be the best route if we want to make some contributions upstream. The `CSSLink` needs `compress=False` due to relative font references. Can the preview be the same font as normal display font? I mean not fixed-width. If editing needs to be the same as preview, we could make it all be not fixed-width and that'd probably be fine I think. Also transparent background might be good for preview (our current preview is transparent background and also removes all borders so you can really see how it'll look - not sure if we really can remove borders with this editor though) Sidenote: As we're adding more JS over time, we might want to figure out a JS test suite some day. Do you know how hard it'd be in future tickets to enhance the toolbar and highlight support for our Markdown variations? If you don't really know that's fine, just wondering. --- ** [tickets:#7897] Live syntax highlighting for markdown editing** **Status:** in-progress **Milestone:** unreleased **Labels:** 42cc sf-8 ux sf-current **Created:** Mon Jun 15, 2015 02:30 PM UTC by Dave Brondsema **Last Updated:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 10:06 AM UTC **Owner:** Igor Bondarenko An editor like https://github.com/lepture/editor which shows some Markdown style rendering as you are editing (not full WYSIWYG though) could be very helpful. Demo at http://lab.lepture.com/editor/ We should figure out how to change the help & preview buttons to use our help & preview URLs. However I don't think we should try to customize the syntax highlighting for our customizations (e.g. `~~~~`, artifact links, etc) yet. Can be a followup ticket. I like this because it doesn't attempt to do a full WYSIWYG exact render, so we don't have to worry about some of our customizations. Yet it does do enough formatting that people will notice if they unintentionally cause formatting with a `_` or a `*`. And it even helps with the sneaky gotcha of a bullet list without a preceding blank line (it doesn't work, it is rendered as italics) (This idea came from discussion on [#6822]) --- Sent from forge-allura.apache.org because [email protected] is subscribed to https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/tickets/ To unsubscribe from further messages, a project admin can change settings at https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/admin/tickets/options. Or, if this is a mailing list, you can unsubscribe from the mailing list.
