Markdown support improvements

[Kevin Shanley]

I'm a longtime user of MLO (over 10 years) and really want proper markdown support.  From what I can see, MLO only has partial support for markdown and no ability to customize it.  What are the plans to improve this?

For example: if you copy the markdown from a site: https://markdown-it.github.io/

into MLO and see the output, then you will notice that many formats are missing or poorly interpreted.

  - Bullet points do not follow standard conventions

  - No support for tables

  - The source code blocks are pretty ugly in comparison (and something that I really want to look nice)

If I am going to take the time to write notes in markdown, then I really want it to look nice and add value.  At a bare minimum, bullet points should work reliably.

I would also like the ability to customize the look and feel by adding a cascading style sheet.  The code block issue could easily be fixed by allowing users to override the CSS.  The markdown plugin for Notepad++ offers much more functionality in this regard.

There is also a funny bug: When you have scrolling markdown, then the scroll wheel only scrolls about a half a line as a time (making scrolling very painful).  When the field is plaintext, then the window scrolls correctly (3-4 lines at a time).

[Alyona (MLO Support)]

Thank you for the feedback, Kevin! The current version of Markdown is not final, of course. We are not yet ready to disclose our plans, as we are still listening to the comments and suggestions. The most popular requests get higher priority.

Could you record a video of the bug? I could not replicate it.

[Kevin Shanley]

I also included a picture comparing Notepad++ with my custom stylesheet markdown output vs MLO markdown of the same text.

[Kevin Shanley]

On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 12:32:37 PM UTC-6, Kevin Shanley wrote:

I added a video of the scroll bug.

[lewy]

Hi Alyona,

I would like to feedback hope that Markdown enhancement in the future include at least followings:

1. support for Table

2. support highlight such as example when user type ==example==

3. support strikethrough such as example, when user type ~~example~~

4. better appearance of code fence & blockqoute.

5. Superscript - 19^th^  , 19th

6. Subscript - H~2~O, H2O

 

Also hope this markdown feature can implement in mobile version too, so both desktop and mobile can have consistent preview.

Regards,

[Rene van Hout]

Yes, good idea!

Also please upgrade Android MLO3 to also support Markdown, as well as Markdown in the reporting in MLO Windows. 

Thanks,

René

[Alyona (MLO Support)]

Could you provide your CSS file as an example? We will think of a way to implement it.

On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 9:32:37 PM UTC+3, Kevin Shanley wrote: