If you come across something that doesn’t work pop it here

    • ZagorathEnglish
      4•3 months ago

      I installed Sync just to test this. To me, that’s displaying with “not” superscript but not “working”. On web, it just doesn’t work at all (this is due to the markdown library lemmy-ui uses not allowing spaces).

      Suspect ~subscript will~ also not work. Curious about struck-out text.

      • ZagorathEnglish
        5•3 months ago

        Okay subscript didn’t work on lemmy-ui or Sync. Struck out is fine.

        How about single-word subscript? edit: yup, works in lemmy-ui, not in Sync.

  • tb_English
    12•3 months ago

    Code blocks in quotes appear a little funky.

    Some line of code

    
> Extended quote
> ```
More code

    Further extended quote

  • CoelacanthEnglish
    10•3 months ago

    Spoiler formatting was a big one, Lemmy wants to do it like this, I think:

    Some paragraph text.

    Spoiler Title

    Some spoiler elements

    Other paragraph text.

    EDIT: the main issue being Sync not displaying the spoiler title properly

    • Mom Nom MomEnglish
      6•3 months ago

      I’d also like to mention that the way it’s done in the community about page for S4L doesn’t seem to work:

      1- No advertising or spam.

      All types of advertising and spam are restricted in this community.

      Edit: this is so confusing. It doesn’t work in the about section, but looks fine in my web interface. I don’t even know what to believe!

    • @[email protected]English
      2•3 months ago

      Works when viewing this comment page but when looking at your profile page it’s blank. Is this expected?

  • @StovetopEnglish
    7•3 months ago

    !spoiler spoiler Test Comment

    with line breaks!<

    
with line breaks!<```

Saw this comment in the wild which does not appear correct in Sync.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/8334366

In Sync it looks like this:

![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a660f68f-f78b-41a8-ae15-17a8cd896c3e.jpeg)

On Lemmy via browser, it looks like this:

![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ed917b91-cdf6-401a-92e0-01462790b8ce.jpeg)
  • SanguineParEnglish
    5•3 months ago

    Not sure if this is the right place, but in the menu for sharing a community, the format is https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy - any way to have that be [email protected] instead?

    I believe that’s the preferred format, although I’m not sure if it’s universal across Lemmy and other apps. Both ways work in Sync.

    • Ljdawson (Sync dev)OPMEnglish
      6•3 months ago

      Tricky as sharing it to someone without sync might not work well.

      • ZagorathEnglish
        8•3 months ago

        sharing it to someone without sync

        The bang syntax will work much better for anyone on Lemmy itself, regardless of which instance they’re on or which client they use, while the URL syntax is better when users want to share a link to a community off-platform.

      • SanguineParEnglish
        4•3 months ago

        Ah, fair point. Maybe a concatenated version with both formats? Dunno. Not a huge issue to be fair :-)

  • VictorEnglish
    5•3 months ago

    Not sure if code blocks are supported at all (I’ll test using this comment); I know inline code strings are, but blocks I’m not sure.

    Either way, in the editor, I’m missing buttons for both inserting inline code and a code block.

    Speaking of messages, I can’t seem to find a way to mark a message/comment reply as unread. I would like that very much.

    #!/bin/fish
#Testing a block of code
if true
  printf "yes"
else
  printf "no"
end
    • @CrayonRosaryEnglish
      4•3 months ago

      I’ve noticed that Sync requires two newlines between the preceding sentence and the bulleted list, but the Lemmy website does not, nor does Eternity. That appears to be the problem with the list you posted.

      This might not make a bulleted list in Sync:

      • one
      • two
      • three

      This should make a bulleted list in Sync:

      • one
      • two
      • three

      Source:

      This might not make a bulleted list in Sync:
- one
- two
- three

This should make a bulleted list in Sync:

- one
- two
- three

      Yes, that was the case. Sync screenshot:

      1000022013

      • @StovetopEnglish
        2•3 months ago

        • This is an example of a bulleted list item that is long enough to likely wrap onto a second line on most phones.

        • This is another bulleted list item that is intended to do the same thing in order to see how readable they are together.

        • This is a third bulleted list item that has an additional line break between the previous list item.

        1. This is an example of a numbered list item that is long enough to likely wrap onto a second line on most phones.

        2. This is another numbered list item that is intended to do the same thing in order to see how readable they are together.

        3. This is a third numbered list item that has an additional line break between the previous list item.

        These don’t seem very readable to me, making dense walls of text. I feel like bullets and numbers should indent the paragraph to more easily see the separation between list items.

        • @CrayonRosaryEnglish
          3•3 months ago

          The additional line breaks aren’t doing anything, as I’m sure you can see.

          The indent should be an option, if anything. At large font sizes, or small screens, that forced indent might be wasting a lot of space. Especially for nested lists.

          Although, as it turns out, Sync barely indents nested lists. That alone makes it hard to read, too.

          I’d support the indent you mention. It would make nested lists much easier to read, too.

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    • SanguineParEnglish
      2•3 months ago

      I think a way to make them work is to add two spaces after each line. Here’s a test…

      • Line one
      • Line two
      • Line three

      Hopefully that works.

      It did :-)

      • @CrayonRosaryEnglish
        5•3 months ago

        That’s a placebo and it’s not doing anything. Bulleted lists never need two spaces at the end of each line. You only use two spaces at the end of line that are not in bulleted or numbered lists.

        The bug is that Sync requires a blank line before you start the bulleted list. The Lemmy website doesn’t require that.

        Here is your comment with no spaces at the end of each line:

        spaces after each line. Here’s a test…

        • Line one
        • Line two
        • Line three

        See? It still works fine.

        Now here’s an example of what two spaces do.

        The first sentence below has a new line after each word but no spaces. The second sentence has two spaces and a new line after each word. The spaces force a line break to be rendered.

        This Is Not A List

        This
        Is
        Not
        A
        List

        Source of the above:

        This 
Is 
Not 
A 
List

This  
Is  
Not  
A  
List

        This feature of markdown was implemented to prevent text from emails and such from wrapping in funny ways when pasted into a comment (or whatever). Old emails often force line breaks after 80 columns of text and it looks goofy when viewed in a modern web browser if those line breaks are kept, so they are ignored. To preserve the line breaks, you add two spaces at the end of each line. That or you might prefer to write paragraphs with a hard wrap at some column, but other people shouldn’t have to suffer that.

        Adding the two spaces to lines in a bulleted list does nothing useful, but it also doesn’t break it, so of course it works.

        • SanguineParEnglish
          3•3 months ago

          Ah, I see - thanks for the detailed explanation. I think I sort of knew that, but got mixed up when replying on bullets.

      • @CMahaffEnglish
        4•3 months ago

        So I know that will make it look correct in sync, but I guess what I’m getting at is that the comment is an example that looks right in other clients but NOT in sync.

        Sync should show the list correctly like other clients do.

        • SanguineParEnglish
          3•3 months ago

          Yeah, sorry, I got mixed up, so my ‘solution’ wasn’t really a fix at all.

  • @StovetopEnglish
    3•3 months ago

    This is a spoiler message that I unhid before editing.

    >!This is a spoiler message that I unhid before editing.!<

    !This is a spoiler message that I left hidden before editing!<

    >!This is a spoiler message that I left hidden before editing!<

    This is the edit.

    • @StovetopEnglish
      3•3 months ago

      Not sure I’d count this as a markdown bug per se, but it seems that when you un-hide a spoiler and then edit your post, it treats the post as if the spoiler had never been there in the first place.

  • @DoomBot5English
    3•3 months ago

    No text image links in post bodies. Usually see them in the format [](link here) don’t show up at all.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•3 months ago

        I think they mean they want a button to embed an image link like we have for regular links

      • @DoomBot5English
        1•3 months ago

        Actually other person got it wrong, but I can confirm that it is fixed in the latest version. I don’t see examples of this very often, but I did run across one today.

  • @pivot_rootEnglish
    3•2 months ago

    While this isn’t strictly a markdown issue, it is slightly related. Link domain indicators are handled specially for Reddit, and they probably shouldn’t be.

    This is a link to a Lemmy post. Sync appends (lemmy.world) after it.

    This is a link to a Reddit post. Sync appends (/comments/) after it.

    This is a link to an old.reddit post. Sync appends (/comments/) after it.

    This is a link to a Lemmy profile. Sync appends (lemmy.world) after it.

    This is a link to a Reddit profile. Sync appends (u/ljdawson) after it.

    I acknowledge that there would be technical difficulties in trying to make Sync identify ActivityPub users and posts, and the current implementation of showing the domain name is good, in my opinion.

    Reddit links should probably display the Reddit domain name, however. These links are external to Sync and would open a new browser page, and it’s more informative for the user to know the domain of the link they are opening.

  • @VoxtopassEnglish
    2•2 months ago

    Furigana (a feature of Japanese text) is supported by Lemmy on the web but doesn’t work in Sync. It’s not a part of core markdown but Lemmy uses a plugin.

    Here’s an example post showing how to use it. https://programming.dev/post/530608

    Here’s what it should look like:

    And here’s Sync:

  • @[email protected]English
    2•3 months ago

    Markdown is not respected in post preview (can’t attach an image apparently, but many posts on news communities will have a quote)

    • @[email protected]English
      2•3 months ago

      Why can’t you attach an image? If it’s your instance you can upload elsewhere and embed with:

      ![](img url here)