Markdown in DW

[jducoeur]

Oh, and a quick note for any fellow DW newbies who didn't read the recent release notes (which is where I found out about it): it turns out that Dreamwidth supports Markdown format! If you start you post with a line that just says:

!markdown

the rest of the post will be interpreted as Markdown.

Obviously, this isn't so important if you don't know or like Markdown. But it's my wiki syntax of preference (Querki's own QText wikitext is a dialect of it), and it's the format I use automatically, so I find it very convenient. It makes things like links easier, and allows you to use the same at-name syntax for referring to accounts that every other social network now uses. If you like this approach, take due notice of its availability...

Comments

[metahacker]

!markdown

I'm guessing *not* supported for [comments]()?

[jducoeur]

I don't believe so. Support is still fairly limited -- IIRC, you get it by using that flag on postings, and I think it's always-on for email postings. (Or emailed comments? Something like that.)

There is some demand to make it more general, but I think they're taking it one step at a time. (I've already submitted a not-yet-approved UX suggestion to replace the "!markdown" with a checkbox in the Beta Posting UI, which would remember your most recent decision.)