I tried to click “get notified” on this comment but I’m not sure if it did anything, so I will have to come up with something useful to contribute to make sure :P
I wish we had markdown syntax for footnotes, as well. As-is it often feels like the markdown editor is a second-class citizen.
Ah sorry, I don’t think there’s any additions on the markdown side.
As-is it often feels like the markdown editor is a second-class citizen.
Yeah I think this is true in some sense. CKEditor does get more attention in our dev work. Partly that’s because it’s the default, and is used much more often (I ran a quick query to sense check this, and it looks like about 1⁄9 of things written on the Forum in 2024 are in markdown, 7⁄9 are using CKEditor, and 1⁄9 are other[1]). I don’t think this tells the whole story though, so I’m open to pitches for us to enhance the markdown editor. :) Though note that we have significantly less engineering capacity now.
Nice! Is there an associated Markdown syntax I can use that will trigger the same functionality?
I tried to click “get notified” on this comment but I’m not sure if it did anything, so I will have to come up with something useful to contribute to make sure :P
I wish we had markdown syntax for footnotes, as well. As-is it often feels like the markdown editor is a second-class citizen.
Markdown footnotes work, they’re just different to the first-class ones. This post was fully Markdown (and I couldn’t have done it without it!)
oh! uhh, how?
Just the normal markdown syntax:
Here’s a simple footnote[1].
This is the first footnote.
Thanks! (I slightly object to “the normal markdown syntax”, since based on my quick reading neither John Gruber’s original markdown spec nor the latest CommonMark spec nor GitHub Flavoured Markdown have footnotes)
Ah sorry, I don’t think there’s any additions on the markdown side.
Yeah I think this is true in some sense. CKEditor does get more attention in our dev work. Partly that’s because it’s the default, and is used much more often (I ran a quick query to sense check this, and it looks like about 1⁄9 of things written on the Forum in 2024 are in markdown, 7⁄9 are using CKEditor, and 1⁄9 are other[1]). I don’t think this tells the whole story though, so I’m open to pitches for us to enhance the markdown editor. :) Though note that we have significantly less engineering capacity now.
Mostly admin-specific or legacy things