What is Reddit's opinion of
Markdown?
From 3.5 billion Reddit comments
100 reviews of this app found across Reddit:
It's actually one of two standard Markdown format variants. Reddit just decided that it uses Markdown-but-not-really (I can't really balme them, though), and if you are used to making italics and **bold** with different symbols, it's easy to make a mistake.
You can also do two spaces followed by a newline
Same exact thing, and you don't end up with all the blank spaces between lines.
That's honestly just standard Markdown syntax though, nothing to do with reddit itself.
You can just use a backslash to escape the #
Reddit comments are parsed as Markdown, which lets you do all the formatting that you're used to. Each # maps to one of the six levels of headings in HTML, one of the languages used to create websites.
So, while you can kinda get the result you want with seven #, it's actually much easier to escape it:
\#escaped
#escaped
> EDIT: formatting because old reddit site can't display markdown
It can display Markdown just fine. It can't display Commonmark.
>I don't know why typing in 2 and 4 and period produces a 1 and a period. Reddit is weird.
It's a part of markdown. Typing any number followed by a full stop and then a space, at the beginning of a line starts a numbered list. It changed to the number 1 because it was the beginning of the list (even though I think it should start counting from 24 if that was the number you typed, but whatever). Putting a \ before the dot stops that formatting.
Example:
That's the answer.
Months
365. Days in Year
And now formatted as code so you can see what I wrote.
42. That's the answer.
12. Months
365. Days in Year
You can do lots of interesting things with it
Some are better than others
---
Wooooo woooooo Wooooo *awwww* *there we go*
===
There is often several ways to do the same thing
Many many ways
Some are more powerful
Than others
But eventually they are limited
Wooooo woooooo Wooooo awwww _there we go_
- Lists
- and sublists
- of sublists
- and on
- and on
- and on
- and on
- of sublists
- and sublists
- as
- easy
- As
- This
code blocks with *easy* to read, unthingymabobbed text
> and quotes
Right I am bored. I do my notes in markdown coz its easy and effective.
I love it.
- Put a space behind your hyphens.
- It will turn them into a bulletpoint list.
- Hopefully this helps in the future.
For more markdown info, check this link.
I have seen this so many times that it bothers me because this is incorrect. Reddit uses a Reddit-flavored Markdown, in which:
- two spaces = a newline (
\n) - two newlines = a new paragraph
Read the docs for details if you are curious.
Markdown's been standardized since 2004. As a programmer, I can also say it's a lot easier to parse, doesn't force you to deal with XML-like begin/end tags or nesting (which requires recursive parsing to match properly), and has a ton of different implementations for various web servers and technology stacks, which makes it the preferred goto as it's trivial to hook into an existing framework.
I'm not bitching, I'm just saying there's good reason for its usage. I'm also not sure about what you mean by "not stick". Two spaces after a line is what gives a single line break and translates directly to the HTML "<br />" tag, though, and that's how it's always worked.
From RES formatting help:
> reddit uses a slightly-customized version of Markdown for formatting. See below for some basics, or check the commenting wiki page for more detailed help and solutions to common issues.
Yea, it's an issue/feature of markdown, they may change it in the future so that lists can start at an arbitrary number but I suppose they haven't felt that it's entirely necessary.
quick tip: &nbsp; is the HTML entity code for a non-breaking-space... but ya cain't really use HTML stuff here. instead, reddit uses a kind of mark-up (the term for inline codes that modify content appearance) based on a popular one named <em>markdown</em>.
anyway, good on you for having moral fiber. :-)
But then it's a) inconsistent with other views of Reddit and b) in violation of the Markdown spec which says, "Regular Markdown syntax is not processed within code blocks. E.g., asterisks are just literal asterisks within a code block. This means it's also easy to use Markdown to write about Markdown's own syntax."
This is a bug, and should be fixed.
Those are not bugs, that's just markdown.
Actual numbers in ordered lists are meaningless. You're writing a single ordered list (with paragraphs) in your screenshot. The linked FAQ has examples of both these behaviours.
Salut, j'aime bien tes commentaires du genre, mais pour simplifier la lecture, j'ai recollé le tout ici http://socrates.io/#kjudaOz
C'est du markdown (https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/), pour ceux que ca interesse. Un autre visionneur live: http://markdownlivepreview.com/
Read this if you want to make comments much easier to format.
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics
edit: Oldie but goodie
That probably won't work in mobile but it should work in Firefox/Chrome/Opera if you know how. The picture is a chrome guide, the comment I linked to is how to do it in firefox.
Rando lurker here. Indenting a line with spaces or a tab starts a code block, which is meant for pasting bits of programming code etc. where you don't want any automatic formatting.
If you want to learn about it, look at the markdown website, which is what reddit's formatting is based on.
> This is one of the dumbest things that ~~reddit~~ markdown does. It's on a par with the search function.
FTFY
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax (homepage)
https://www.google.com/search?q=markdown
It's part of the original implementation of Markdown by John Gruber, which is the syntax Reddit uses (with some modifications).
> The point is, if you want to, you can use ordinal numbers in your ordered Markdown lists, so that the numbers in your source match the numbers in your published HTML. But if you want to be lazy, you don’t have to.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This needs 3 left arms. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ <- Like So.
Long Explanation Follows.
The \ and _ characters are formatting characters in the markdown language used by Reddit. The backslash formatting character is used to escape the formatting character following it.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ <- One backslash prevents the underscore from activating. The second underscore becomes inactive (and visible) because it has no active pair.
¯\(ツ)/¯ <- Two backslashes. The first backslash prevents the second backslash from being used as a formatting character, thus turning it into a visible character. The underscore no longer has an active backslash directly in front of it, thus it italicizes everything between it and the other underscore.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ <- Three backslashes. The first backslash deactivates second, rendering it visible. Third backslash deactivates the underscore, rendering it visible. Underscore following face has no other underscore to pair with, thus it remains visible.
I made this a macro in RES. Now 2 seconds of my time can make a difference to people across the globe.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This needs 3 left arms. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ <- Like So.
Long Explanation Follows.
The \ and _ characters are formatting characters in the markdown language used by Reddit. The backslash formatting character is used to escape the formatting character following it.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ <- One backslash prevents the underscore from activating. The second underscore becomes inactive (and visible) because it has no active pair.
¯\(ツ)/¯ <- Two backslashes. The first backslash prevents the second backslash from being used as a formatting character, thus turning it into a visible character. The underscore no longer has an active backslash directly in front of it, thus it italicizes everything between it and the other underscore.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ <- Three backslashes. The first backslash deactivates second, rendering it visible. Third backslash deactivates the underscore, rendering it visible. Underscore following face has no other underscore to pair with, thus it remains visible.
I made this a macro in RES. Now 2 seconds of my time can make a difference to people across the globe.
> t's very handy. I sometimes use the > outside of reddit, even though it doesn't lead to the same quote indicator, simply because it's practical to use one sign for quoting.
>
> Some email systems use the same sign for it, which might be where reddit got the idea from.
Um, yes. <strong>Markdown</strong> (which predates Reddit’s comment support and is also used in many other places) was modeled after email conventions.
> While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.
I can't stress this enough: Don't use bitly. Markdown has a more than satisfactory functionality for links, and doesn't require shortening. All it achieves is someone potentially clicking on a risky link, and decreases legibility.
Reddit uses a formatting engine called Markdown. You need two spaces at the end of a line to make a single line space and two returns to make a double line space.
single
space
double
space
These two links are shown in the "formatting help" dropdown under every comment box in browsers:
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
https://www.reddit.com/wiki/commenting
A markup language is a way to ask a computer to apply formatting to text. HTML is an example of a markup language. (The ML stands for markup language.)
A lightweight markup language is a markup language that's easy to read both before and after formatting had been applied. For example, here's what one would type in a theoretical lightweight markup language:
# Main Heading #
## Subtitle 1 ##
This is some text. This part is important.
And here's what it might look like after rendering:
Main Heading
Subtitle 1
This is some text. This part is important.
Markdown is the name of a specific lightweight markup language created in '04, and it's become very popular since then. (Note the curious sense of humor in the naming.)
The original Markdown docs can be found hereMarkdown docs can be found here. As skul86 noted, Reddit uses a variant of Markdown, but I'd learn the original first just because of its popularity.
To add to this most sites (reddit included) use markdown for comment styling.
For an explanation of everything look here.
What are you talking about? Reddit doesn’t have a “way for you to crate hashtags”. They just render whatever you type as markdown.
It’s the same reason ¯_(ツ)_/¯ looks weird without extra slashes to prevent some of the characters from getting interpreted as markdown.
Add two spaces at the end of a line and it'll be interpreted as a line break. Or just press enter twice.
You can do most of these in Reddit comments. :)
The hash # is syntax for markdown text editing language, one of the inventors was Arron Swartz, a co-founder of reddit. If you want to learn more about reddit's modified version, https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax will get you started.
The number sign is Markdown (the formatting reddit uses) for making something a header. If the first key of a new paragraph is a number sign, Markdown will interpret that as you wanting to make that a header. So if you edit your comment to remove the number sign, the formatting will be fixed. Alternatively, if you want to keep the number sign in your comment, you can add a backslash before the number sign to fix your formatting. A backslash in Markdown is interpreted as an escape key (the key you use when you want to display the character in your comment, not use it for Markdown formatting).
>not the codeblock standard normally expected.
>Here's some fun. The documentation for old.reddit.com and the newer reddit.com have different methods.
That's because four spaces is the original Markdown specification for a code block, and (old) Reddit uses Markdown as the parser. Three backticks is an extension added in some other spec, most likely CommonMark.
Markdown is originally meant for making the text file just as readable as a parsed document. In that context, having code blocks start each line with four spaces is much cleaner and more understandable than three backticks.
You can format on mobile, with Markdown, the same way as on the website, unless you use Fancy Pants Editor.
In this case: [text](URL) for [text](URL).
Written on mobile.
Reddit uses Markdown. Here's a good overview: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
On Mac, I like the Macdown editor. You can fiddle around with any markdown preview editor to test output.
I find "be nice" has been a good catchall rule.
Markdown, reddit's formatting, has a simple syntax:
--- will make a horizontal rule
*around a text* makes it italic
**around a text** makes it bold
Two spaces behind a line
and hitting enter once will start a new line.
Hitting enter twice
will start a new paragraph
putting a \ in front of e.g. a * will make it appear as the symbol and not the markdown command.
a #hashtag will make a caption:
Caption
you can make
- bullet lists
- like this
- with dashes
and they will
- look
- like
- this
~~strikethrough~~ does ~~strikethrough~~
hello^dude = hello^dude; hello^^^^dude = hello^^^^dude
some more: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
You've got your brackets the wrong way round. It should be:
[text here](link here)
Reddit uses Markdown for formatting, you can find information on the syntax here.
The four spaces at the beginning of your post are causing the weird formatting. Four spaces at the beginning of a line tells reddit that the line is pre-formatted, meaning it shouldn't do any line wrapping and such.
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#precode
If you edit the post and remove the four leading spaces, the formatting should appear as normal.
Instead of writing HTML manually for each post, you could also write your posts as Markdown and use one of the many converters to display as HTML.
In a comment/post? Put two spaces on the end of the line: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#p
> When you do want to insert a <br /> break tag using Markdown, you end a line with two or more spaces, then type return.
Seriously?
I think we can be a little more helpful.
Let's start with a few links:
http://search.cpan.org/~bobtfish/Text-Markdown-1.000031/lib/Text/Markdown.pm https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
It's worth noting that Markdown was original implemented primarily with regex in Perl. So the format itself is particularly amenable to being correctly implemented this way:
Sort of a programmer thing. MarkDown is a format for writing text that makes it so that you can read the text in its raw form, but it can also be interpreted by a computer program to make it look “Fancy”.
bold is **bold**
italics is *italics*
> Quotes
Look like this:
> Quotes
And I can make text big.
Or small
With #s (1-6 of them for XXL-S)
Or even ^make ^^them ^^^do ^^^^this.
And even more can be done if you check out this page for more details.
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
> Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
> Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML. See the Syntax page for details pertaining to Markdown’s formatting syntax. You can try it out, right now, using the online Dingus.
> The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This needs 3 left arms. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ <- Like So.
Long Explanation Follows.
The \ and _ characters are formatting characters in the markdown language used by Reddit. The backslash formatting character is used to escape the formatting character following it.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ <- One backslash prevents the underscore from activating. The second underscore becomes inactive (and visible) because it has no active pair.
¯\(ツ)/¯ <- Two backslashes. The first backslash prevents the second backslash from being used as a formatting character, thus turning it into a visible character. The underscore no longer has an active backslash directly in front of it, thus it italicizes everything between it and the other underscore.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ <- Three backslashes. The first backslash deactivates second, rendering it visible. Third backslash deactivates the underscore, rendering it visible. Underscore following face has no other underscore to pair with, thus it remains visible.
I made this a macro in RES. Now 2 seconds of my time can make a difference to people across the globe.
> Writting on reddit app on mobile, damn it is trash for formatting my spaces/single newlines are ignored.(I absolutely dispise the way reddit formatting works, literally 4chan's way is superior over stackoverflow's and reddit's hot steaming piece of garbage)
Read this, it'll help: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
It should use Markdown. Check here for a syntax reference.
ArkhamDB is based on /u/Alsciende's framework for NetrunnerDB and ThronesDB, which both use Markdown as well (as does Reddit!). ArkhamDB doesn't seem to be as explicit about it for some reason, but it should work mostly the same way.
You create a line break by adding 2 spaces at the end of a line
You create a new paragraph by making 2 line breaks instead of one
For more info check out the markdown documentation
If properly formatted, a numbered list in Markdown should all start with “1. “
The Markdown processor converts these lists to HTML, which are numbered automatically by the browser. Using all 1’s allows for flexibility, eg. ability to insert a new element into the list without having to change the number of every element that follows.
See [inventor of Markdown] John Gruber’s documentation for more info.
either insert an asterisk (*) at the beginning of each line to create a bulleted list, or insert two spaces ( ) at the end of each line to create paragraph breaks.
More information about markdown here
Markdown is just more popular- you will find more parsers, more tools that support it.
If you are planning to write in the wider world, Markdown is recommended, just because everyone is using it (though be prepared for the My Markdown is different from yours, just.... because!).
Also, it irritates me that when people link to John Gruber's blog when pointing to a reference for Markdown. That blog, written in 2004, is freakin' 12 years old, yet everyone keeps pointing to it, like it's the Bible.
With Markdown, if you get stuck, you'll have to search for the specific MD implementation (like Github, Reddit etc). And be prepared for MD that works for one tool not to work for another.
Even with these issues, I'd still recommend Markdown, as it has a large number of tools (and increasing), and the problems with implementation are being fixed slowly.
Reddit comments use markdown, which auto formats your text in certain ways, for example it thinks you are making a list so it starts at 1 no matter what number you typed. You can fix it by putting a backslash first.
>I don’t even know how to quote. Looking at you guys quote for fun makes me feel stupid. It’s like watching a 14yo kid skateboarding. I am 32 and yes I just started out, so shut the fuck up.
>Show me the way please
Any paragraph you preface with a '>' will be formatted as a blockquote. Have a look at the full documentation.
if you put a > infront of the text that should apear as a quote...
>...it becomes this
Reddit only renumbers things that look like an ordered list in Markdown, but that's completely in line with the Markdown spec (scroll down slightly to where it talks about ordered lists). Github, for example, renders things the same way.
Then again, the argument can be made that Reddit comments shouldn't be such a strict Markdown derivation at all, since the huge majority of the users on here wouldn't be aware of this behavior.
As a point of reference, you can find Reddit's Markdown guide here, and the official reference for Markdown (which is implemented and used by a variety of other sites as well) here.
The website now uses a basic wysiwyg (What You See Is What You Get) editor for post and comment creation, so the issue with markdown generally only applies to people who intentionally switch to the older editor, or those posting from mobile.
Here is the actual syntax guide.
And to correct you slightly, ending a line with two blank spaces followed by a return just starts a new line, not a new paragraph. Two returns starts a new paragraph. See below:
Line
New Line
vs.
Line
New Paragraph
> The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.
-- The guy who made Markdown.
But it's not a bug... it's how the <u>markdown</u> works. You can do fancy things with markdown and to make sure that you can also do not fancy things with the *markdown* you need to have a way to escape it. But to escape the escape you need to put in a second escape \ <--that has two slashes typed out not just one since they decided that slashes will be the escape.
You can put in a table like with dashes and vertical bars. Reddit uses a popular formatting language called Markdown.
So if type this:
>Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3
>------------|------------|-----------
>Row1 Col 1 | Row1 Col 2 | Row1 Col3
>Row2 Col 1 | Row2 Col 2 | Row2 Col3
>Row3 Col 1 | Row3 Col 2 | Row3 Col3
Will get magically transformed into this:
| Column 1 | Column2 | Column3 |
|---|---|---|
| Row1 Col 1 | Row1 Col 2 | Row1 Col3 |
| Row2 Col 1 | Row2 Col 2 | Row2 Col3 |
| Row3 Col 1 | Row3 Col 2 | Row3 Col3 |
Here is a good primer for Markdown.
Here is the official syntax guide, which is of almost no use.
If you want to use a pound sign (#) at the beginning of your comment, insert a backslash ( \ ) first. Like so:
#
Which does:
#2 is the best Garak/Bashir moment...
Pound signs have special formatting properties in Markdown, which is used in reddit comments.
This is actually a function of Markdown formatting.
Reddit supports Markdown and, in fact, other formatting marks work:
italic bold Markdown Syntax link
I have no idea why the quote function doesn't work. But needs to be fixed.
Protip: Reddit uses markdown. Uses '<space>-<space>' to make bullet points. Like this:
- Cloth and leather options for interior
- Maybe HUD
- Ludicrous
- (RWD and FWD already published)
- Comfort options like in the Model S and X
- Options to buy Spotify and similar entertainment packages
- Skibox config
using - underneath text makes the text a header
For example, this is a header
Using = makes it a subheader - like this
Not right now, though that's because you haven't triggered the numbered-list formatting.
You see, Reddit uses Markdown to format the texts you post, either as a separate post or as a comment. You can use its rules to your advantage. It may seem overwhelming to learn, but once you get into it, it's fairly intuitive.
So, right now, you don't have numbered lists: you have separate lines of bold text that each start with the necessary number. ("1.", "2.", "3." and so forth).
In Markdown, when two lines of text aren't separated paragraph-style—as in, directly one over the other, no gap—you have to force line breaks by adding a double-space at the end of each line item.
Pretend the double-underscores below are spaces:
Deck
3 First Day of Class (STX) 102__
3 Bonecrusher Giant (ELD) 115__
3 Swamp (STX) 371__
...etc.
Before asking if Markdown will remove an ability, I think it's important to understand why Markdown was designed and what is was designed for. On that page, you'll also see the original Markdown hasn't changed since 17 Dec 2004 (and, features have only been added).
A more interesting questions is will markdown add the ability to do insert feature here. For that, most of the discussion happens on CommonMark.
Markdown is not standardized, and different services implement it differently. The original variation of Markdown, however, implemented it as 4 spaces at the start of each line. It is in fact Github and other websites that implement it 'incorrectly' (but really, it's just not a standardized format).
Here's the relevant excerpt from that page:
> To specify an entire block of pre-formatted code, indent every line of the block by 4 spaces or 1 tab. Just like with code spans, &, <, and > characters will be escaped automatically.
>
> Markdown:
>
> If you want your page to validate under XHTML 1.0 Strict,
> you've got to put paragraph tags in your blockquotes:
>
> <blockquote>
> <p>For example.</p>
> </blockquote>
>
> Output:
>
> <p>If you want your page to validate under XHTML 1.0 Strict,
> you've got to put paragraph tags in your blockquotes:</p>
>
> <pre><code><blockquote>
> <p>For example.</p>
> </blockquote>
> </code></pre>
It’s the markdown language reddit uses. To get a single line break put two spaces at the end of the line before a single return.
Then to put a paragraph break put in two returns.
To use italics place the text inside an asterisk each side and to bold use two and to both use three.
It’s not super well publicised but there are links around to how to use it here and there.
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click reply -> formatting help -> the commenting wiki page, and you'll get to this page which should cover everything nicely
If you want to go deeper into what markdown is and every little thing you can do with it, click here
edit: looks like they've started updating this page instead, but some on that version only works on 'new' reddit? Interesting, I might need to try some of that stuff myself later and work out exactly what is and isn't available in the version of reddit most people actually use.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This needs 3 left arms. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ <- Like So.
Long Explanation Follows.
The \ and _ characters are formatting characters in the markdown language used by Reddit. The backslash formatting character is used to escape the formatting character following it.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ <- One backslash prevents the underscore from activating. The second underscore becomes inactive (and visible) because it has no active pair.
¯\(ツ)/¯ <- Two backslashes. The first backslash prevents the second backslash from being used as a formatting character, thus turning it into a visible character. The underscore no longer has an active backslash directly in front of it, thus it italicizes everything between it and the other underscore.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ <- Three backslashes. The first backslash deactivates second, rendering it visible. Third backslash deactivates the underscore, rendering it visible. Underscore following face has no other underscore to pair with, thus it remains visible.
I made this a macro in RES. Now 2 seconds of my time can make a difference to people across the globe.
Actually, the four spaces thing is the standard, according to the original reference implementation. The backquotes form is a newer extension popularised mainly by Github's markdown variant.
Markdown hat sich aus gutem Grund für Readme-Dateien durchgesetzt. Aber für ein ernstzunehmendes Dokument will man eben keine ASCII-Art-Diagramme haben.
Was du da benutzt, ist übrigens nicht Markdown. Markdown hat keine Tabellen. Das ist irgendeine von den 9001 Erweiterungen.
Markdown ist eine DSL mit dem Ziel, Dokumentenfragmente einfach erstellen zu können, und weil es jeder und sein Hund in irgendwelche Webseiten embedded und Spezialfeatures hinzufügt, ist es sehr uneinheitlich. Ein Ersatz zum Erstellen eines kompletten Dokuments ist es eher nicht – hier eignen sich AciiDoc oder rST eher, allerdings auch nur, bis man Diagramme zeichnen will.
If you want all the information! You should check out this guide!
It’s probably not completely accurate for Reddit but it’s the same syntax as the cool kids call it, so the examples should work!
You have to double-break. Reddit uses a markup language called Markdown.
Hey unpronounceable username,
Markdown is a universal standard so whether Standard Notes supports nested lists depends on Markdown actually supporting it.
The good news is... it does support them! Here is how you do it:
1. First item
2. Second item
1. Sub-item A
2. Sub-item B
* Sub-item C
3. Third item
4. Fourth item
Before sub-items A, B and C, I pressed the tab key to push them a little bit to the right. On Markdown, this is what will indicate those are sub-items and will convert properly. You can do this with both numbered and bulleted lists.
Here I am testing this on Standard Notes using Simple Markdown Editor: https://imgur.com/a/xCFocbX
Hope this helps you!
>Reddit's algorithm
It's called markdown. Lots of sites use it though, Reddit is probably just the most popular. YouTube comments have partial support for it so you can do things like italicise words in YouTube comments. Most forums support it as well. Also, GitHub comments support it as well.
My only complaint is that Disqus doesn't support it (instead they use HTML tags).
You can escape the markdown by putting a \ in front of it.
So, \#aHashtagNotAHeader
Will look like this:
#aHashtagNotAHeader
You put '\' before the hashtag, and it works fine. So '\#BringTheCoolDokisBack' would turn into #BringTheCoolDokisBack.
Reason this works: >Markdown allows you to use backslash escapes to generate literal characters which would otherwise have special meaning in Markdown’s formatting syntax.
If you're writing a relatively simple document, have your co-authors write in markdown using a plain text editor, and then convert to latex with pandoc. If they aren't already familiar with markdown, it should take less than 15 minutes to learn the basics.
If you're writing a more complex document (with lots of formulas, figures, special characters, etc.), you may be out of luck unless you want to volunteer to code it all yourself in latex.
> I have no idea why all paragraphs are labelled 1. While editing the comment they go 1 2 3
You have too many blank lines between each paragraph so Reddit is treating each paragraph as a separate numbered list starting with 1.
You need can try removing some of the blank lines so Reddit thinks all the paragraphs are part of the same list and numbers correctly, use backlash "\" before the full stop to tell Reddit not to do automatic numbering and display what you typed, or use brackets instead, e.g., 1), 2), etc., so Reddit doesn't try any automatic numbering. Both the last 2 options will remove the indentation too.
> What is this space-space-enter to represent line breaks, that isn't any kind of standard.
Yes, it is.
Here is the actual, literal quote from the Markdown standard:
> "When you do want to insert a <br /> break tag using Markdown, you end a line with two or more spaces, then type return."
(FYI, in order to format text on reddit you need to use Markdown. To bold text, put double asterisks around it: writing **this** displays as this.)
> Why the hell are points 1 and 2 in large fonts????
Because you put a '#' at the start of the line. You have to escape it like '\#' if you don't want it to turn the line into a header
# like so
if you just want bullets, start the lines with '1.', and you don't even have to number them yourself
- like this
- and like this
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
The Markdown syntax turns every list item into a list starting with 1 unless you use a backslash to cancel the formatting. On desktop there's a little link below the text box when you post.
Not so, I'm on RedReader (Android App) and I see it like the desktop users do. Reddit uses Markdown for formatting and the mobile apps probably differ in their interpretation of it.
Reddit uses Markdown for formatting.
Formatting characters can be escaped with a backslash \ to force them to display as regular characters.
Surrounding text with single asterisks will italicize it.
Surrounding text with double asterisks will bold it.
If you've done formatting in Reddit comments, you've already used Markdown.
You shouldn't pick a CMS without first choosing a backend language and environment, because you can't learn the tool effectively without first learning the language it's written in.
My one piece of advice is anything but WordPress. It's utter garbage: terrible architecture, code, database schema, and an inexcusably ignorant approach to security. Should you decide to go the PHP route, WP is how to learn every wrong way to do it.
I'll get downvoted for saying that (yet again), but those indignant clicks won't make my statement any less true.
Oh, lol. The second, more subtle, reason is that it emphasizes the fact that what's shown is in fact the syntax one types. The third, more honest, reason is that it's habit; I guess using regular quotes might have been more appropriate.
And I don't mean to imply that you aren't familiar with markdown formatting; I went into detail for the benefit of the (probably) tens of other people who read my comment, in the hopes that a few of them find the lesson useful.
While it would be helpful, they can't put everything in the formatting help, because it would be far too long, and that's not even everything you can do with Reddit's syntax.
No, it's Markdown, the markup language Reddit uses. This isn't a bug, it's a feature. (Well, sorta. It's a feature on desktop and a bug on mobile.)
Markdown interprets any number followed by a period and more text as a numbered list. This:
61. Hello 35. Lester 1. Be 102. Piercin
Renders as this:
- Hello
- Lester
- Be
- Piercin
The actual number doesn't matter. This is so you can add new items in the list without manually retyping all the numbers.
The Markdown implementation in the official Reddit mobile app is either limited or super buggy. It renders the line breaks in an ordered list but it keeps the numbers from the source. It also tends to fail on any kind of nested sigil.
Oh and for the record, you're right, this post belongs in /r/notinteresting. Reddit is full of kids, man.
Make paragraphs. Separate your ideas.
You can take a look to Markdown, too, if you'd like to add some emphasis.
I just need some structure to rely on. Good or bad, I don't care.
You have an "edit" button under your post. Click it and you can modify your post again.
That's all the pointers I can give you.
Reddit uses Markdown formatting in posts and comments. It's like shorthand HTML.
The pound symbol (aka hash symbol) represents a header, and the number of pound symbols indicate the importance. The largest header has one pound symbol, and the smallest has six.
one
two
three
... etc.
It's a part of the markdown standard, which is what reddit uses. If you have a number then a period at the start of a line, it formats as a list starting at one no matter what.
This:
4. Cat 7. Dog 1. Bird
Turns into:
- Cat
- Dog
- Bird
You can stop is by putting a backslash between the number and the period.
4. Cat
4. Cat
It's Markdown which, btw, is designed by one of Apple's biggest proponent, John Gruber in collaboration with Aaron Schwartz (RIP).
It is not limited to Reddit. This weird ass logic comes from the official Markdown specification. So if you want a line break without hitting enter twice you have to end the line with two whitespace characters.
So, "flat-file" just means that your content is stored in ordinary files (in Grav's case, plain text files containing Markdown), as opposed to a traditional relational database (like MySQL, which is what WP normally uses).
The advantage is reduced complexity and improved performance, because your web server just grabs the file and renders the page, rather than having to perform a database query. Relational databases are good for a lot of things, but storing (mostly) static content isn't one of them.
I'd encourage you to visit their chat room - they're really helpful!
put a # before any line you want HIGH ENERGY (remember to end the line with a double space or everything will be big & bold)
Reddit comments are based on markdown syntax
for reference, right under the comment box, opposite the Save button there's a link with "formatting help" that'll show you common syntax for comments
Everything you wanted to know about reddit's formatting system but were too afraid to ask
^^^note: ^^^reddit ^^^does ^^^not ^^^use ^^^every ^^^aspect ^^^of ^^^markdown, ^^^for ^^^example, ^^^no ^^^embeded ^^^images.