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Rev

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Currently the system won't let you write CommonMark lists inside cells. If we start seeing HTML tags spread in posts it's a step back, because only rarely would you see any HTML when editing other people's posts. Also, not keeping the separators aligned makes for some serious spaghetti.

bad_coder
– bad_coder

2020-11-23 20:31:08 +00:00
Commented Nov 23, 2020 at 20:31
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Resounding agree on the spaghetti comment. The underlying source for this post is a mess lol

zcoop98
– zcoop98

2020-11-23 20:56:29 +00:00
Commented Nov 23, 2020 at 20:56
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Thanks for the effort, the upcoming Editor might help a little; but wasn't able to parse and render the contents of this answer.

Rob
– Rob

2020-11-24 01:46:14 +00:00
Commented Nov 24, 2020 at 1:46
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I'm hesitant to make any recommendation that encourages mixing HTML and Markdown. There are just too many nasty cases how this can go wrong and break assumptions. The official spec is the source of truth. Anything that you manage to pull off beyond that is coincidence. Practically, it's not like we're changing our Markdown renderers frequently - so if it works now, chances are it will continue to work for a good while.

Ham Vocke
– Ham Vocke StaffMod

2020-11-24 07:51:10 +00:00
Commented Nov 24, 2020 at 7:51

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create code fences with backticks ` or tildes ~
```
like so
```
add language identifier to highlight code
```python
def function(foo):
print(foo)
```
put returns between paragraphs
for linebreak add 2 spaces at end
_italic_ or **bold**
indent code by 4 spaces
backtick escapes `like _so_`
quote by placing > at start of line
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