It’s pretty trivial for us to add footnotes to our markdown editor, so if a bunch of people upvote this, I can get around to it this or next week (we use markdown-it, which has a plugin for footnotes).
FWIW, it’s likely that the absence of a text-centering plugin is deliberate (to the extent that a community/cultural consensus can be “deliberate”). After all, Markdown is a tool for structuring text, not styling it. (To put it another way, Markdown is a markup syntax for converting text to HTML, not to HTML+CSS!)
Empirically, we should not expect to find any centering plugins any more than we should expect to find Markdown plugins to paint your text with all the colors of the rainbow, to change the font to Zapfino, to rotate it 75° counterclockwise, etc.; and, normatively, we should not write such plugins (even though we totally could).
Neat, thanks! No worries about centering text. Footnotes would be much more valuable; especially the ability to automatically insert jump links (or display on mouse hover) rather than having to scroll up and down/open the document in two tabs.
I do not think LessWrong’s editor framework supports either footnotes or centering (and nor does Markdown in general, for that matter). There is no way to use HTML that I’m aware of.
That having been said, there are two ways to use Markdown instead of the default (“rich text”) editor:
Go to your account settings (click on your name in the top right → click “Edit account”), and check the “Activate Markdown editor” checkbox.
Alternatively, use GreaterWrong, which provides a Markdown editor by default (and exclusively).
Thanks. You’re right—I haven’t used markdown much, didn’t realise those features weren’t available. Will have a look at GreaterWrong for composing future posts.
In the post editor, is there any way to use markdown or HTML instead of rich text? (For example, to superscript footnotes, or centre-align text.)
It’s pretty trivial for us to add footnotes to our markdown editor, so if a bunch of people upvote this, I can get around to it this or next week (we use markdown-it, which has a plugin for footnotes).
Centering text doesn’t seem to have a plugin available, and I haven’t really seen it anywhere, so we probably won’t have that.
FWIW, it’s likely that the absence of a text-centering plugin is deliberate (to the extent that a community/cultural consensus can be “deliberate”). After all, Markdown is a tool for structuring text, not styling it. (To put it another way, Markdown is a markup syntax for converting text to HTML, not to HTML+CSS!)
Empirically, we should not expect to find any centering plugins any more than we should expect to find Markdown plugins to paint your text with all the colors of the rainbow, to change the font to Zapfino, to rotate it 75° counterclockwise, etc.; and, normatively, we should not write such plugins (even though we totally could).
Neat, thanks! No worries about centering text. Footnotes would be much more valuable; especially the ability to automatically insert jump links (or display on mouse hover) rather than having to scroll up and down/open the document in two tabs.
I do not think LessWrong’s editor framework supports either footnotes or centering (and nor does Markdown in general, for that matter). There is no way to use HTML that I’m aware of.
That having been said, there are two ways to use Markdown instead of the default (“rich text”) editor:
Go to your account settings (click on your name in the top right → click “Edit account”), and check the “Activate Markdown editor” checkbox.
Alternatively, use GreaterWrong, which provides a Markdown editor by default (and exclusively).
Thanks. You’re right—I haven’t used markdown much, didn’t realise those features weren’t available. Will have a look at GreaterWrong for composing future posts.