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Would it be possible to preview the title like it is the case with the text body?
Would it be possible to preview the title like it is the case with the text body?
Might not it help?
I've been forced many times to edit the title to make it clear, mostly in a typographical way.
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Some MathJax expressions incorrectly do not render in the preview, but do render in the actual post
Some math equations do not render correctly in the editor preview.
Here's an example of one of them:
$$\text{card}(x) = \|x\|_{0} = \lim_{p \to 0} \left( \sum_{k=1}^{n} |x_{k}|^p \right)^{1/p}$$
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Incorrect rendering in all but answer list
If I visit https://android.stackexchange.com/a/205140/311449, the lists are how I expect them to be - correctly indented:
However, that same source code's rendering shall break, should I:
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HTML tables are unusable [duplicate]
I want to modify https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/56857772/2#:~:text=http%3A%2F%2F%20www.%20example,user%20%40%20example.com
Source
The following **bold** parts of URLs *may* be case-sensitive, ...
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Post formatting is not accurate for numbered lists of code blocks. Is this a bug?
Compare the way this list looks in the post versus the screenshot of the preview:
text:
1.
{ label: `Baz ${x ? n1 : n2}`, kind: "B", } satisfies B,
1.
{ label: `Baz ${x ? n1 : n2}` ...
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Automatic URL parser is wrong (discarding character after URL)
When using the part for https://dba.stackexchange.com/q/330357/272354: in a question, the trailing colon is discarded.
IMHO it should be obvious that the colon cannot be part of the URL (link), so it ...
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Markdown preview rendering difference when linking the file protocol
Code:
From the [weakref documentation](file:///usr/share/doc/python3/html/library/weakref.html):
Expected result: link may or may not be active, but the markdown should parse. This works in the ...
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URLs in double quotes are not resolved [duplicate]
There seems to be a bug inasmuch that there is a disparity between the auto-resolving of Stack Exchange URLs within double-quotes contained in posts in normal viewing mode and in edit mode.
Example (...
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Why don’t we see a preview of the bounty message?
I'm wondering why we don't see a preview of the bounty message.
In one of my questions, if the bounty message was in the main post; the second link; i.e., the following would show only the following,...
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MathJax preview renders slowly and improperly
When writing expressions in the body with MathJax on the Mathematics Stack Exchange site, the preview is sometimes immediate, but oftentimes it takes maybe a good five seconds to render. In the latter ...
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Missing a backtick from Markdown table in preview was well rendered, but not server side
Related: https://askubuntu.com/a/1464175/93706
In the table below, 1{print} is missing its closing backtick. The preview handles this well by having it render as plain text instead of code but when ...
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MathJax escape sequences don't work
The equation $x = \{y\}$ is supposed to render like this x = {y} but instead in the preview pane it looks like this x = y. The escape sequences for curly braces, \{ and \}, do not render correctly. ...
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Non-space characters following an SE shortlink aren't shown in preview
Example:
The : isn't shown in the preview.
You can test yourself with the following:
"Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server" is back: test 1
"Failed to upload image;...
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MathJax processing issue - Strange behavior in the editor of "\:" in a formula
I noticed that in some posts, the code of the equations ends with "\:.", but nor "\:", nor ":" themselves appear in the rendered equation (see, e.g., this answer). ...
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The preview for a question is different from the view of the question
This is not a duplicate of Block quote handling mismatch between preview and post. The questions are somewhat similar in that the preview is incorrectly parsing the Markdown, but from both a ...
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`'%` breaks hyperlinks in Markdown preview
'% breaks hyperlinks in Markdown preview. Example:
The link works once the edit is saved:
Experiment below:
https://example.com/an'%20example
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Tables just became broken in Markdown preview
I just tried to insert a table while writing a post but it appeared broken in the preview. I used the basic example shown in the "formatting tips" to confirm:
| A header | Another header |
| ...
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Stacks Editor Markdown preview mode is now available
Following the alpha release of the Stacks Editor, we got lots of feedback (including three out of the top four answers on the post, as well as other answers below and many comments) asking for a way ...
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Tags not rendered in preview while editing Help Center pages
Moderators are able to edit the Help Center page What topics can I ask about here? on their site. This uses the standard post editor, but it does not render tag links (e.g. [tag:support]) in the ...
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Parenthesis's for numbered lists in posts with indented code not working in the live Post
When CommonMark was adopted, it added support for numbered list that use 1) as the markdown.
I was looking at this answer from 2009 on Stackoverflow and saw that it contained "1)". Before a ...
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Snippets in nested list items break nesting in post preview
Similar to "Why aren't runnable code snippets formatted correctly within lists?" (which appears to be resolved), when a snippet is in an item in a nested markdown list, it breaks the nesting....
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Block quote handling mismatch between preview and post
Noticed on my answer to a question on BGSE, the preview and the posted answer, the block quote is handled differently:
This is the markup for my rules quote:
Here is the preview that shows below the ...
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Markdown tables with unmatched backtick \` should either not show as a table in preview or show correctly after preview
I spotted a discrepancy between Markdown preview and posted questions. This discrepancy also holds for answers.
When using unmatched backticks ` inside a table cell, like in following source:
|header1|...
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MathJax inconsistency between preview and rendered post
I cannot show it here or in the Sandbox directly since there is no MathJax on Meta.SE. There is a Sandbox in Cryptgraphy Meta that one can test there; just click edit and see the difference. The ...
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Quotes prevent auto-linking Stack Exchange question URLs, but the preview doesn't reflect this? [duplicate]
Compare this preview of editing a post (the same is true when writing):
With the results:
Can this get fixed at some point?
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Markdown preview in suggested edit and post does not match
This is the post: Install Windows 10 alongside Ubuntu 18.04
The post looked like this before I suggested an edit:
I suggested an edit: https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/1191605
If I look ...
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Incomplete table Markdown causes preview to appear fine while it's broken when posted
A usual one line table has the below syntax:
|this is one line table|
|----|
and render as:
this is one line table
If we omit the vertical lines:
|this is one line table|
----
It is rendered the ...
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Some Markdown tables incorrectly omit an entire column in the rendered post, but display correctly in the preview
This is not a duplicate of the following posts:
Markdown table preview does not detect missing blank line before table header - that question is reporting a different issue, a problem with tables ...
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At least one diacritic displays correctly in the editor preview, but it doesn't in the rendered post in Firefox
I was just mentioning in another post that typesetters and typographers have been dealing with diacritics for a long time and it isn't hard to get to them. I was delighted to discover that my example, ...
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Table nested in a list item renders in preview, but not when saved [duplicate]
I have just edited this answer. My edit added markup like this:
list item
| a | b |
|:--|:--|
| 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 3 |
The above renders as a table in preview, but not when the answer is saved.
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Unordered list is shown as nested in the on-site rendering but flat in the post editor
I use Chrome (latest version), and there is an obvious bug.
Look at this post.
Click to "edit" that post and without making any changes, just look at that post how it looks like in the &...
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Lists using #) instead of #. break on render, but not preview, for this old post [duplicate]
This question looks like this in the editing preview:
Here the #) list formatting works. But when the question renders on-site, it looks like:
The #) list has lost its formatting and shows up as ...
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Period (.) after a link renders after the link in preview, but as part of the link in the rendered post, when there are bold/italic markers
This is not a duplicate of this similar, much older bug report, as the Markdown renderers have changed since that report (as a result of the CommonMark transition), and that report was marked ...
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At least apostrophes now do not always preview correctly when an internal link is used [closed]
Link to submitted post
I searched and I do not think it was reported.
When an internal link is used, at least (possibly other characters are impacted) apostrophes now do not* render properly in the ...
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Question URL with quotes displays the actual question title during the edit preview, but not when the edit is saved
The Space SE question What have astronauts used rolls of Kapton tape for? originally looks like this to me:
Enclosing the URLs in quotes prevents the replacement of the URL with the actual question ...
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Markdown list rendering mismatch between preview and actual post
I was browsing a Stack Overflow question and in an answer there is an ordered list, but it was written using ) instead of . so I tried to edit it.
When in click edit the list was rendered correctly as ...
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Table Markdown content in a question breaks only when posted [duplicate]
A user on Puzzling.SE reported this apparent bug:
This is what it looked like in the preview thing in the edit mode,
Then, this is what it looked like in question.
We already know that a broken ...
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Show a preview of the title when editing/asking - at least on the MathJax sites
When you are asking a question - or making a suggested edit - you can see the preview of the post, but not a preview of the title. This does not matter that much on the sites without MathJax - after ...
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Markdown Table Display Bug
I just noticed this answer that got bumped up recently on RPG SE. The editor was trying to replace a formerly MathJax-based table with one in Markdown, which is fine. But the table isn't working at ...
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Incorrect preview of fenced code block within an ordered list
The preview for a fenced code block within an ordered list:
This is the actual result after posting:
The fenced code block turned into inline code! The preview is wrong.
1.
scheme (doc id: 1 title: &...
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Markdown table preview does not detect missing blank line before table header
When I edited an answer on Electrical Engineering Meta to add a second markdown table, both the first and second tables rendered correctly in preview, but the second table does not render. I've waited ...
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Markdown rendering: Trailing backslash for line break is incorrectly included in URLs but works in preview
I have found a bug with the Markdown renderer which causes a difference between what the preview shows and how it is being rendered after posting. The issue appears when attempting to use a forced ...
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Markdown preview doesn't match post
What I wrote:
| Road class | [Syntax explanation](https://sites.google.com/site/roadnumberingsystems/home/general-information/legend) |
| ----------------------------------...
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Link in quotes rendered as title in edit preview mode but as URL in the rendered post
It looks like links to questions within quotes are being rendered with the question title in the edit mode preview, but as a URL in normal viewing.
Given the following question Markdown:
Testing some ...
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Link works in "preview", but not when posted
Everything works correctly in Chrome, but in Firefox, I'm seeing the following problem:
Both this and this answers link to
http://www.tau.ac.il/~kantor/QUIZ/96/A01.96.html
But the link works ...
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Formatting tip says 4 spaces are needed for nested lists when it appears to be 3
It looks like I was able to make a nested list by using 3 spaces (and then 2 spaces for each additional nested list), even though the formatting tip says "4 or 8 spaces" are required. See ...
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Question and answer preview is wrongly rendering some Markdown
As you know, an equal sign (=) under a line means header formatting in Markdown (see Markdown Help, for those who don't). The text below:
Example
has one = underneath it, but with a =) it looks like ...
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"About me" preview wrongly renders some Markdown
When I edit the "About me" section on any of my accounts I see this:
Under the "About me" box we can see exactly what I would like to display in my "About me" sections.
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Preview ignores leading whitespace
Markdown source:
flush left
indent
more indent
Renders correctly as:
flush left
indent
more indent
But edit this post, and notice that the leading whitespace is ignored in the preview:
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Bug within text editor or front end at all
In a question on Security.SE, I've found a possible bug.
The left side of the screenshot is how it looks on the front end of the site, and the right side shows how it looks when editing.
You might ...
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