What is Markdown and why should you care

OlgaA

If you are on sites such as GitHub, Reddit, Diaspora or Stack Exchange, chances are you’re already using the Markdown language. For those not familiar with it, let’s get you started by showing you a few ways to use it in Vivaldi.

Click here to see the full blog post

Pesala

@olgaa ==Highlight== works in notes, but not on the forum.

seron

I'd like to point out that there's a wiki-page about Aaron Swartz too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

LonM

Markdown is great for note taking. But you're limited to simple formatting.
Word processors and docx are great for short reports. But good luck handling lots of figures and references.
LaTeX is great for making you hate everything. Your resulting PDF will look good though.

OlgaA

@seron: Yes, definitely worth reading up about him. Markdown is just one of the things he will be remembered for.

lamarca

You might ~~like to~~ have heard ~~hear~~ this from mme "I am strongly favor of simplicity ...." The day M2 was able to compose in RTF, Ɵpera begun to die.

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ROTFL

I think that more interesting ones are:
- Tables
```
| Left-aligned column | Centered column | Right-aligned column |
| --- |:---:| ---:|
| Content 1 | Content 2 | Content 3 |
```
  | Left-aligned column | Centered column | Right-aligned column |
  | --- |:---:| ---:|
  | Content 1 | Content 2 | Content 3 |
- Code blocks
```
```
  Line 1 of some code
  Line 2
```
```
```
Line 1 of some code
Line 2
```
- Checkboxes
```
- [ ] Butter
- [x] Salt
```
  ️ [Not working on forum, but try it inside Notes panel]
- Multi
  - level
    - lists
      - [just add 4 spaces per level]
```
- Multi
    - level
        - lists
```
  1. Works
    1. for
      1. ordered
        
        ones too
- Collapsable sections
```
<details>
<summary>"Click to expand"</summary>
hidden text
</details>
```
  ️ [Not working on forum, but try it inside Notes panel]
- Syntax highlighting
```
```javascript
  function fancyAlert(arg) {
    if(arg) {
      $.facebox({div:'#foo'})
    }
  }
```
```
```
function fancyAlert(arg) {
  if(arg) {
    $.facebox({div:'#foo'})
  }
}
```
  ️ [Hard to notice on forum, but try it inside Notes panel]
- Horizontal lines
```
---
```
  ️ [Not working on forum, but try it inside Notes panel]
Highlight? Nice
The biggest problem with Markdown are still "flavours" - incompatible / inconsistent implementations...
Just compare forum and Notes panel in Vivaldi.

ROTFL

@gwen-dragon: There is even different rendering between forum and comment thread view on website...

Cqoicebordel

@lonm: You can convert M to LaTeX or PDF, if you want to. Pandoc is nice for that

Pesala

It would be good to add a few more buttons to the forum toolbar for markdown.

Fang

I love notes/markdown function in Vivaldi. Is there a chance to add the possibility of generating PDF from markdown notes?

Fendar

Markdown is great, thanks! But strike trough does not work in notes. In addition it would be nice to be able to de-/select checkboxes in note's view mode.

Pesala

@fendar ~~Strike through~~ works fine in notes, and on the forum. Use a double tilde ~~

The article is wrong: it shows to use --strike through-- which does not work.

OlgaA

@gwen-dragon: Good question. I added a bit about CommonMark + the answer to your question to the blog post, but in brief: Vivaldi’s Notes were created using extended Markdown syntax supporting CommonMark. We even made the to-do checklist plugin ourselves.

OlgaA

@fang: Yes, that's a good suggestion. We're thinking about this, so let's say it's in the pipeline.

OlgaA

@pesala: We'll fix the visual!

Ruarí

@pesala: Indeed, highlight is not part of the CommonMark specification (or the original MarkDown).

The Notes implementation is actually CommonMark plus a few extras

Vivaldi’s Notes were created using extended Markdown syntax supporting CommonMark

buak

Tip: Stack Exchange's excellent open source markdown editor, StackEdit, works great in a web panel.

neltherion

Thanks... The Cheatsheet really helps... I hope you can find a way to add some buttons in the Note section for users to be able to click on one and get their desired Markdown tag... something like what Reddit or Github uses...

neltherion

@rotfl: I hope they can add these to the Cheatsheet too! Really helpful...