If you have an already-open LW2 page, changing the setting in your profile will not change the behaviour of comment editors created by that page unless you reload the page. It might be worth displaying something to that effect when committing profile changes that include a change to the comment editor setting.
The option is labelled “Markdown comment editor”, but comments can be formatted using Markdown either way. Maybe “Markdown-only …” or ”… (no WYSIWYG)” or something? If it’s Markdown-and-LaTeX then “Markdown-only” would be unfortunate. Maybe invert it and make the checkbox say “WYSIWYG comment editor”?
When using the WYSIWYG comment editor, it initially displays a notice about Markdown being supported. When using the non-WYSIWYG comment editor, it initially displays something that doesn’t mention Markdown. Maybe make it say something like “Write here. You can use Markdown formatting.”?
There isn’t anything that indicates whether with the non-WYSIWYG comment editor you can still use LaTeX. I guess you can but haven’t checked.
Alas, the MD editor doesn’t yet support LaTeX, though it wouldn’t be too hard to make it work (about 2-3 hours of work, since it does require rewiring a bunch of backend stuff).
A few remarks on the new option:
If you have an already-open LW2 page, changing the setting in your profile will not change the behaviour of comment editors created by that page unless you reload the page. It might be worth displaying something to that effect when committing profile changes that include a change to the comment editor setting.
The option is labelled “Markdown comment editor”, but comments can be formatted using Markdown either way. Maybe “Markdown-only …” or ”… (no WYSIWYG)” or something? If it’s Markdown-and-LaTeX then “Markdown-only” would be unfortunate. Maybe invert it and make the checkbox say “WYSIWYG comment editor”?
When using the WYSIWYG comment editor, it initially displays a notice about Markdown being supported. When using the non-WYSIWYG comment editor, it initially displays something that doesn’t mention Markdown. Maybe make it say something like “Write here. You can use Markdown formatting.”?
There isn’t anything that indicates whether with the non-WYSIWYG comment editor you can still use LaTeX. I guess you can but haven’t checked.
Alas, the MD editor doesn’t yet support LaTeX, though it wouldn’t be too hard to make it work (about 2-3 hours of work, since it does require rewiring a bunch of backend stuff).