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Indented Stack Snippets don’t render well
This Markdown:
- foo
if (Math.random() < 0.5) {
console.log("hello, world!");
} else {
console.log("goodbye, cruel world!");
}
Renders as:
foo
>
> ...
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Url protocol should not be required for image links
It is possible to write links without specifying the protocol, in this manner:
[This is a reference-style link][some-link]
[This is an inline-style link](//stackexchange.com)
[some-link]: //...
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Markdown code for tags in older posts is rendered as text
We were able to add tags in a post using a special syntax, like this
[tag:example].
For older posts, they don't appear as tags anymore. Instead they are rendered as hypertext links. This bug is "...
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Cannot paste into SE code blocks when Editing, breaks text editor and Markdown preview
There seems to be something wrong with the text editor when editing code inside ``` code blocks. I've noticed this when editing questions.
Copy code from my IDE
Edit a question
Highlight all of the ...
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Incorrect rendering in all but answer list
If I visit https://android.stackexchange.com/a/205140/311449, the lists are how I expect them to be - correctly indented:
However, that same source code's rendering shall break, should I:
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Too low baseline with italics in comments
I noticed that some of the italicized words in comments are too low, on at least one site. See I pronounce question as kweshtin. Is my pronunciation wrong? and also the following screenshot:
Comment ...
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Escaping a backtick with a backslash in backtick-delimited inline code seems to be broken
In the comments, you can use
`\``
to escape a (code formatted) backtick, like so:
resulting in
However, in question (and answer) posts, it doesn't work. It ends up looking like three backticks: ```....
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answer
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Post formatting is not accurate for numbered lists of code blocks. Is this a bug?
Compare the way this list looks in the post versus the screenshot of the preview:
text:
1.
{ label: `Baz ${x ? n1 : n2}`, kind: "B", } satisfies B,
1.
{ label: `Baz ${x ? n1 : n2}` ...
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Inline code in blog contains raw markdown (backticks) instead of proper inline code
In the recent blog post on Rust & the White House, there's some unescaped Markdown:
(and Rust will let you explicitly mark code `unsafe`)
But suppose you can’t rewrite your entire C or C++ ...
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Code formatting sometimes overflows to the right column
Here is an example in this now-deleted question:
Copy-pasting the problematic line here:
SELECT enterpriseid, lastUpdated, oldrecords,case when array_size(newrecords)>0 then ...
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answers
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Markdown for links in comments sometimes breaks with angle brackets and nested square brackets
The following markdown:
[[example].com](https://www.example.com) (<https://www.example.com/abc>)
Produces this in a post:
[example].com (https://www.example.com/abc)
But this in a comment:
[[...
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0
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Markdown inside HTML tags breaks formatting when switching to Rich text mode
This behavior is relevant to the Stacks Editor (used by default in SO Teams, and as an optional mode here on MSE).
How to reproduce:
Enter the following text in Markdown (with preview) mode:
<sub&...
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Moderator action popup doesn't support Markdown, but contains item with it
Moderator action popup has an option "convert to edit":
* text autotranslated to English
Original text here is:
Answers should be converted to an edit of the question when they represent ...
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answer
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Space to first character after quote broken if full stop [period] used
If you quote a number & add a full stop after it, the formatting jumps off to the left.
> 1234
> 1234.
> 123456789.
> 1234567891.
1234
1234567891.
It seems it keeps moving left ...
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1
answer
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Markdown errors in blog post about RAG
Editor note: While there's at least one other applicable tag, I'd like to leave it at four tags to allow for a status-* tag.
In this blog post, there's an unusual use of a code block to quote LLM ...
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1
answer
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Mistake in code in recent blog post
The recent blog post looks like this:
Timing of the blogpost aside, can the post be updated to remove python at the start of the code block? I presume someone intended to set the language and instead ...
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Why is my MathJax formatting so messed up? [duplicate]
Just look at this mess.
The following source:
We have $G$ solvable, so that we can find a tower of subgroups
$$
G = G_0 \supset G_1 \supset\cdots\supset G_m = 1
$$
so that the conditions on ...
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Unparsed Markdown in blog post "Ask like a human: Implementing semantic search on Stack Overflow"
Here is the blog post I'm referring to.
See this paragraph (link ommitted from paragraph as it isn't relevant here)
Building on the work we did to build course recommendations, we used the same ...
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URLs in double quotes are not resolved [duplicate]
There seems to be a bug inasmuch that there is a disparity between the auto-resolving of Stack Exchange URLs within double-quotes contained in posts in normal viewing mode and in edit mode.
Example (...
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Bolding in the first cell may remove it from the table
I noticed this bug in my Lit answer when I bolded the first column in some rows. The preview works (as it always does). The actual post does not, and those bolded cells are just missing:
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1
answer
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Code highlighting and image placement breaks despite correct syntax
Signal Processing answer, normal vs preview:
It's only toward the bottom of the post, yet it doesn't happen toward bottom of a much longer post. I confirmed it's also reproduced only with the ...
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Missing a backtick from Markdown table in preview was well rendered, but not server side
Related: https://askubuntu.com/a/1464175/93706
In the table below, 1{print} is missing its closing backtick. The preview handles this well by having it render as plain text instead of code but when ...
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Comment markdown formatting doesn't render correctly when immediately followed by a forward slash
Consider either of the following Markdown formatting examples:
a**b**/c
a*b*/c
They will (as expected) render as ab/c and ab/c, respectively, in posts. However, in comments, it does not work for some ...
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1
answer
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Why aren't two subscripts in same line allowed in MathJax?
I'm trying to write the following equation on math.SE:
(\mathcal L_r \eta)_{\mu_1...\mu_p}=(r+p)\eta_{\mu_1...\mu_n}
However, you will find that if you put this expression between dollar signs, it ...
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answer
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Markdown rendering changed for this quoted bullet list
This answer contains some quoted bullet list that used to be better displayed. What happened?
In 2017:
Now:
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answers
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Text following a setext heading in a <pre> blocks is rendered in editor preview as non-pre-formatted text
I noticed that if one puts a setext heading and some following text inside a <pre> block, the text following the setext heading gets rendered in the editor preview as non-pre-formatted text.
My ...
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Email does not support SE-style Markdown, to everyone's disappointment
I just received an email from Stack Overflow community support, checking in with me about why I haven't taken moderator activites on Constructed Language Stack Exchange lately. The answer is simple; ...
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answers
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Direct links don't render when inside square-bracketed text, although the preview shows them correctly
Normally, pasting the URL of a Stack Exchange post (from the same site that you're posting on) results in it being rendered into hypertext showing the title of the post. This is a nice shortcut for ...
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1
answer
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Links in comments delimited by less-than/greater-than signs occasionally include the delimiting greater-than sign
Over at Stack Overflow, I wrote a comment that renders like this:
and links to https://wg21.link/p2128>, which at the time I wrote this question returned a 404 error. The maintainer of the wg21....
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Special characters in moderators' names break formatting in 'whois' response
The Teachers' Lounge has a chatbot with a whois function listing moderators for a specific site. The response is in italics, but it's a Markdown message, and moderator names with an underscore at the ...
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answers
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False code detection from the outside code-block when inserting the reference [duplicate]
Inserting the reference after the code block causes an error.
I have to use a line break to solve it, but want it to be possible not to use hacks, because after the code block I write not code but ...
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Revision history behaves strangely when there is only an edit in Markdown
I was trying to see what was changed from revision 1 to revision 2 of this post and it appeared that nothing changed in the side-by-side view:
I switched to the side-by-side Markdown view and the ...
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Tables just became broken in Markdown preview
I just tried to insert a table while writing a post but it appeared broken in the preview. I used the basic example shown in the "formatting tips" to confirm:
| A header | Another header |
| ...
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answers
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Adding a link to formatted text in Rich Text mode causes the text to lose formatting
In Rich Text mode, type some text and add some formatting to it (bold, italic, inline code, etc.). Then, select the text and add a link to it. The text loses all its formatting.
For example, a**b**c ...
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Making part of a link text bold or italic causes the link to be repeated
The Rich Text mode causes links to be repeated whenever a part of the link text is made bold or italic.
To reproduce:
Type some text.
Add a hyperlink to it.
Select part of the text and make it either ...
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Code block within spoiler gives different result than shown
Background: I'm using the opt-in beta for the new editor.
When using the following markdown in the answer editor:
>! ```python
>! if True:
>! print "Hello World"
>! ```
It ...
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answer
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Editor in "Ask Question" page has two snippet icons
There are two snippet icons displayed in the question's body Markdown editing tool. Clicking on both icons opens the snippet section.
I am able to reproduce this on Meta Stack Exchange and Stack ...
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"Is it time to add another moderator" email contains unparsed Markdown
I just received another email in unparsed Markdown:
Can somebody please reactivate the Markdown parser - I seem to remember earlier emails of this type being correctly formatted.
GlorfindelMod
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answer
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Code no longer displays, despite being selectable [closed]
Since today, suddenly code no longer displays for me:
The same happens for in-line code, also that in comments. However, I can select the code:
and copy-paste it to a text editor. Is this a new bug?
...
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Markdown editing help code example doesn't preserve the spaces
The Markdown editing help page currently leads with this code example:
printf("%d\n", 42); /* What was the
question again? */
(This quote excludes the four highlighted spaces at the ...
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Capitalize the word "markdown" in formatting tips and editing help
When editing a post (old or new editor likewise), there is a button to get formatting tips. The page about tables has the word "markdown" written in lower case:
The same issue also appears ...
GlorfindelMod
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Supported Markdown for Flag Text does not Match Supported Comment Markdown
This answer from 2013 states that:
flags are now rendered using the same "mini-markdown" renderer used for comments.
The help center on comment formatting includes a list of shorthand ...
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Why is [meta-tag:status-planned] not rendered in this tag info?
I have noticed that the tag info for status-deferred on MathOverflow Meta contains the paragraph looks like this:
Contrast [meta-tag:status-planned], in which a feature is something that the site ...
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Markdown formatting problems in the Help Center article "How do I search?"
In the Help Center article How do I search?, there seem to be a few Markdown formatting problems:
In the section "Boolean Operators", the subheading "OR operator" is not rendered ...
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Markdown reformatting is broken if a list item starts with a block element
The new/stacks editor, when switching from source mode to Markdown mode, breaks alignment of list items <li> if it begins with a block-level element (<blockquote> or <pre>).
For ...
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votes
1
answer
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Markdown rendering anomaly in the Help Center on SO
On Stack Overflow the privileges for a trusted user page in the Help Center currently shows the following minor rendering anomaly:
##Deleting answers ###When should I vote to delete an answer?
As ...
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Indenting interactive interpreter invokes interesting interactions [duplicate]
Stack Snippets still attempt to be rendered when indented or within code fences.
This behaviour was first observed "in the wild" on this (now deleted) answer on Stack Overflow and in ...
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1
answer
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"Thanks for participating" email is in unparsed Markdown
I just received a "Thanks for participating" email for the Proof Assistants site. I assume these are sent automatically by a script, but it seems to have missed the Markdown-to-HTML parser ...
GlorfindelMod
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6
votes
1
answer
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Code Markdown bug
I've only seen this happen on music.se, the latest one on Metronome Sound today.
The last code block on a page renders as a blank box.
It looks like a few people have had different attempts to get the ...
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Pasting from Microsoft Excel defaults to pasting an image via the Uploader™ [duplicate]
I'm trying to make a markdown table in Microsoft Excel, I copied multiple rows then went to paste the text into a post, and I get this result:
Whereas I'd have expected the table to have been pasted ...
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