What is the level of Markdown support in the editor?

[leandrojmp]

Hello,

I'm curious if the current editor has any level of markdown support, specially if it is possible to use footnotes.

[lylo]

Hi there. So new users as of yesterday will get a new editor which supports basic markdown commands (old users have to have this manually enabled). Pagecord stores data in HTML but you can type popular markdown commands into the editor and it automatically converts them to the right heading, or bold, etc.

You can also paste markdown in and it will get formatted.

For now though, footnotes are not supported. In theory this could be added but it needs some customisation of the editor which is currently an early beta product, see:

https://github.com/basecamp/lexxy

I would certainly consider a PR for Pagecord to add footnote support if it was a maintainable solution that worked with Lexxy.

[reyman]

Nice, i found that footnote will be a "plus" for more academic chatting.
I use it a lot :D

[lylo]

I would love to add it, but I think it's a while away unless someone can add it to Lexxy. I think this will be challenging though because Lexical (which underpins Lexxy) doesn't support it out of the box. It's beyond my personal capabilities I think.