Some basic functionality I would benefit a lot from:
Add functionality for footnotes in the WYSIWYG editor
Make both editors interoperable
Have a way to toggle between the markdown and the WYSIWYG editor on the fly
Footnotes are a thing that I would use more often if it was easy to do so.
I love editing using the WYSIWYG editor, which does not support them. So when I want to add footnotes I would need to: 1) copy paste my article into a google doc, 2) run a plugin to turn the text to markdown, 3) change my editor settings to Markdown, 4) create a new article with the markdown editor, 5) copy paste the markdown generated by the plugin to the new article. And any edition afterward would need to be done on the markdown editor, which I like less. In practice, I just never do this and do not include footnotes or add them at the end of the article, to the detriment of the content.
In general I have the expectation that both editors should implement the same functionality. And ideally they should be completely interoperable, so that I could change between them at any time while editing.
Thanks for the feedback Jsevillamol! And good timing 🙂 Hope WYSIWYG footnotes are meeting your needs. Full interoperability is a pretty tall order, and I expect it won’t be a near-term add, but I’ve added it to our list in any case. Cheers!
In hindsight, the footnotes was the thing I really wanted so I am a very happy user indeed!
Would be good to be able to switch between editors to do things like eg editing complicated LaTeX (right now its complicated to edit it in the WYIWYG editor). But maybe the more reasonable ask is to make the WYSIWYG equation editor span multiple lines for large equations.
Actually it looks like a version of this is currently possible! There’s a handle in the lower-right corner of the equation editor that let’s you resize it. Once you’ve done that, it remains at the set width and wraps the contents to fit. The way the equation editor follows the cursor can be a bit janky, but it does seem to work.
Some basic functionality I would benefit a lot from:
Add functionality for footnotes in the WYSIWYG editor
Make both editors interoperable
Have a way to toggle between the markdown and the WYSIWYG editor on the fly
Footnotes are a thing that I would use more often if it was easy to do so.
I love editing using the WYSIWYG editor, which does not support them. So when I want to add footnotes I would need to: 1) copy paste my article into a google doc, 2) run a plugin to turn the text to markdown, 3) change my editor settings to Markdown, 4) create a new article with the markdown editor, 5) copy paste the markdown generated by the plugin to the new article. And any edition afterward would need to be done on the markdown editor, which I like less. In practice, I just never do this and do not include footnotes or add them at the end of the article, to the detriment of the content.
In general I have the expectation that both editors should implement the same functionality. And ideally they should be completely interoperable, so that I could change between them at any time while editing.
Thanks for the feedback Jsevillamol! And good timing 🙂 Hope WYSIWYG footnotes are meeting your needs. Full interoperability is a pretty tall order, and I expect it won’t be a near-term add, but I’ve added it to our list in any case. Cheers!
Thanks to you!
In hindsight, the footnotes was the thing I really wanted so I am a very happy user indeed!
Would be good to be able to switch between editors to do things like eg editing complicated LaTeX (right now its complicated to edit it in the WYIWYG editor). But maybe the more reasonable ask is to make the WYSIWYG equation editor span multiple lines for large equations.
Really glad to hear footnotes have met your needs!
Added to the list! Are you writing long enough equations that the text goes offscreen?
Yes, that is right.
I don’t have any recent examples in the EA Forum, but here is an article I wrote in LessWrong where the equations where very annoying to edit.
I expect I occassionally would use larger equations, better formated (with underbraces and such) if it was easier to edit in the WYSIWYG editor.
Actually it looks like a version of this is currently possible! There’s a handle in the lower-right corner of the equation editor that let’s you resize it. Once you’ve done that, it remains at the set width and wraps the contents to fit. The way the equation editor follows the cursor can be a bit janky, but it does seem to work.