Is there a thread on this site where someone can practice mardown [duplicate]

Question

I've been trying to use markdown in comments and they never come out right.

When starting a thread, the system show what the markdown will eventually produce before you submit it. That's great. Responding by adding a comment has no such preview facility and every time I hit the enter key to get to a new line (force of habit) it uploads an unfinished comment. That's rude.

I'd like to have a practice thread where anyone can just add comments. Is that asking too much?

Answer 1

The Formatting Sandbox sounds like what you’re looking for.

Note that:

• You can’t use newlines or paragraphs in comments anyways
• Comments use a sparser Markdown syntax:
  • ` delimits code; if you need to use exactly one backslash, surround it with multiple backticks
  • Bold and italic work as usual
  • Links have to use the [Link](http://example.com "Optional title") syntax in comments
  • There are some link shortcuts. A few examples are:
    • [tag:whatever] and [meta-tag:whatever]
    • [help]
    • [so], [meta], [main], [somesiteshortname.se]