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Paragraph breaks in bounty reasons not displayed [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What markdown formatting features are available for Bounty remarks?
Line breaks/paragraphs for bounty text
I have just offered a bounty on Bounty-like facility for rewarding ...
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Careers table support inconsistent between preview and actual rendering
I just edited my careers page, and I added a table in markdown. I know markdown is only partially supported and I kind of expected it not to work, but the preview rendered it exactly like I wanted, ...
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Unfiltered raw MarkDown shown in question summary
This question has a picture right at the start of it. This results in the raw Markdown being shown in the question summary (as illustrated). This Markdown needs to be filtered out.
Thinking that I ...
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Display error when nesting <pre/> in <code/> elements
I have found an issue in this question: How to get list of values in GROUP_BY clause?
Check this out. I enter the following piece of HTML:
<code><pre>hello</pre></code>
It ...
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Inconsistent/incorrect breaks/newlines in lists
When editing this answer, I noticed that placing breaks (blank lines) in lists (especially nested lists) is inconsistent (and possibly dependent on the current state of the JavaScript variables of the ...
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Can't Seem to comment out a link
When testing out The HTML comment Length hack
and I was trying to make the Duplicate Link message a comment itself I came across this curious predicament:
This is the markup:
<!-- **Possible ...
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Markdown code snippets don't allow trailing spaces
I was answering a question on Stack Overflow and required to use a trailing space in one of my code snippets.
I formatted it like so:
`<a `
And it renders without the trailing space: <a
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Two spaces are needed to create a link after a tag reference [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
New “[tag:” syntax interferes with Markdown links
A [tag:foo] followed by a hyperlink breaks the world
For example, [tag:bug] [link][1] is formatted as follows.
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Markdown support for URLs without a protocol
If this does not classify as a bug (probably status-bydesign anyway), then I would like to present this as a feature-request for convenience when copy-pasting certain URLs.
The [Title](URL) markdown ...
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Minor preview bug - mixed case HtTp urls display in preview but disappear from 'live' post
Here is an example:
http://www.google.com -> http://www.google.com
Http://www.google.com->
If you edit this question you'll see that both urls display in the preview - but the second one mixed-...
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Stackapps.com API URLs not rendered as links
I was putting together a question on stackapps (quickly answered) asking about the new API filters. I wanted to link to some relevant API docs pages with the filters already specified, but it refused ...
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Markdown bug on "source" element?
While editing this response, I noticed that some of the poster's code had not rendered. Specifically, the <source> tag and its closure did not render when the code was left-justified. Once I ...
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Using bold or italics within a word in a comment does not work [duplicate]
I just tried to comment multiple times on "November 2011 Moderator Election: Town Hall Chat (scheduled)".
The intended comment was to be rendered as:
not "maderator nominations"
But instead, it ...
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Spacing oddity between lists when lists are found consecutively
Markdown:
1. Item 1
1. Item 2
1. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 5
Now outputted as:
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Item 4
Item 5
The visual gap after item 3 appears to be an error. If I stick anything non-list ...
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Four space indented code cannot immediately succeed a numbered list in markdown [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Code block is not properly formatted when placed immediately after a list item
The title says it all. Here is a reproduction:
An Item
A second item
// Note that there are ...
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Bug in code dump rejector
The system rejects code dumps without context from low-rep users by comparing the ratio of context (non-code-formatted text) to code (text which is wrapped in <pre>). (See also this feature ...
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Spoiler Markdown shows up as normal blockquote
In the question What was Dooku's plan for the Battle of Coruscant?, I used the >! syntax to create a spoiler section, but it shows up as a normal blockquote with a ! at its start.
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My comment `code block` was not converted properly, is this a bug?
In my comment here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/409/what-is-your-favorite-coding-guidelines-checklist/138993#comment-8835926
I needed to have a : symbol with a leading space, but I couldn't ...
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Funny nesting of links and bold
See original post here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6925223/whats-the-easiest-way-to-get-a-random-number-from-0-to-9-in-c/6925263#6925263
If I nest the link brackets within the bold tag it ...
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Problem with markdown and Unicode characters in comments [duplicate]
Unicode characters (as well as characters from the extended character-set) don’t work with the markdown in comments.
In a question or answer, when you use Unicode characters (or extended characters ...
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Markdown not correctly generating links
Reading through this page, and one of the articles prev/next links weren't linking. Went to fix it, but finally decided it was correct (or at least consistent with other working posts), so I assume it ...
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Adding hyperlink markdown after "[] " renders the link incorrectly
The hyperlink markdown seems to break when you have "[] " immediately before link text. I noticed having spaces between the bracket groups doesn't effect the outcome. Maybe it should?
Source: byte[] ...
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Character formatting leaks into tag links
asdf
asdf asdf asdf
asdf asdf asdf
asdf asdf asdf
You can also do asdf, but that's probably okay to leave alone. It's mainly just the character styles (bold, italic, etc.) that I think could use ...
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Links with URIs of schemes other than http/https are broken
It seems like the engine completely breaks all links that use a URI with a scheme other than 'http' or 'https'. Web != Internet, guys! ;)
For example, the market scheme links to the Android market:
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New "[tag:" syntax interferes with Markdown links
Links in [link text][number] format don't work properly if they follow a tag using the new [tag:tagName] format. Here's the result of [tag:python] [gold badge page][1]:
python [gold badge page]1
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Markdown in chat fails for multi-line messages
We've come to rename Markdown to Letdown in the C++ chat room because it lets you down so often. I've now just found a pattern.
It seems markdown fails for multi-line messages. That is, this
Letdown ...
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Blockquote HTML in Markdown stops unordered lists from working
Though it's consistent between the preview and the rendered version in the post the <blockquote> HTML tag is inconsistent with the Markdown shorthand > prefix.
Here's a sample:
<...
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Heading and HR markdown conflict with each other
In the markdown editing reference page it states that horizontal rules could be made using the following:
Insert a horizontal rule <hr/> by
putting three or more hyphens,
asterisks, or ...
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Comments don't have formatting tags or line breaks
I noticed that comments do not support formatting and line breaks like we have in posts.
The markdown help doesn't seem to apply to the comments, so I think it is a bug.
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URL not rendering on StackOverflow
I've been having trouble with this lately. Can someone tell me what's wrong with my URL syntax in my answer to this question:
Programming Technique: How to create a simple card game
I've tried:
[...
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URL from code.google.com is not markdown-parsable [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Markdown rendering URLs with spaces
The following URL from Google Code does not seems to be parsable using the markdown Ajax widget used by Stack Overflow.
http://www....
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Why should users have to press Return twice to insert new lines?
When I post a question and want to add a new line, I have to press Return two times, or else the next text will appear on the same line.
Is this really supposed to behave this way? If so, why?
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Example of broken MarkDown on Stackoverflow
Look in the CODE text for the answer by yonel:
NSArray paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
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Adjacent lists in WMD swallowed into a single list
Obviously, there not being a way to specify the end of a list, and multiple line breaks making list item contents paragraphs, the only way to have adjacent lists is to alternate between ordered and ...
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Post preview breaks URLs with square brackets
The markdown editor breaks URLs that have a [] in them in the post preview. For example:
Test link
the URL is:
http://www.example.com?array[]=item1
it works fine in the final result, though, so it'...
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Is this how Markdown should be rendering code inside a list?
I believe the following example needs no explanation.
What is going on here?
Why would you do this?
(function() {
// Do Stuff
})();
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List Markdown doesn't work unless preceded by a blank line
In the Markdown reference, "Numbered lists are easy":
1. But they don't work for me,
2. ... unless there is a blank line before the first entry.
3. Is this a bug?
Answer summary:
The answer is that ...
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Inline code breaks link text SO Markdown renderer
Reposted from this answer
The following markdown breaks:
It renders..
<b>Testing something" title="" />
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answer
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Code formatting bug for Bash scripts with array size expression
The bash script line:
for ((i = 0 ; i < ${#v1parts[@]} ; i++ )); do
doesn't format properly. The # is incorrectly interpreted as the beginning of a comment.
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Markdown in Careers Experience Responsibilities does not render
In my CV on careers I have this entry in my first experience responsibilities field:
Project management and development of
framework for model driven development
in Delphi. Look for Atlas 2 ...
malach
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CODE format: can I avoid colourisation _and_ italicisation?
There seems to have been a recent change, whereby all text highlighted using the backtick formatting has acquired a colour background. This is fine in a code block but irritating when the format is ...
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Problems creating a bullet and number list with markdown
I'm struggling to format a bullet list, a number list and then a bullet list.
This question isn't looking right:
Frequent error messages when connecting to Windows file shares from a Mac under a VPN ...
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Optional title for Ctrl+L (hyperlink) shortcut is broken
When using Ctrl+L to create a link, the prompt says:
Insert Hyperlink
http://example.com/ "optional title"
If you actually enter enter something with a title, though, it thinks the "optional ...
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Link parsing error, preview is fine
In this answer, the second link is not properly displayed, but the edit page with the preview works as expected.
Displayed answer
Displayed answer http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/6540/...
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Adding image links seems to randomly not work?
I asked Making the YUI TestLogger show only tests that fail? on Stack Overflow, and added an image from my Blogspot account. When I edit the question I can see the image, but in the final question the ...
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List entry followed by code block messes up the code section [duplicate]
Here's two examples (note that in first example, backticks also had no effect, for some reason):
include/db.php:
$attribs =
array(
PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => $...
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Code block is not properly formatted when placed immediately after a list item [duplicate]
Consider the following piece of Markdown code:
This is some regular text.
>>> def factorial(n):
... return 1 if n < 2 else n * factorial(n - 1)
...
* This is a list ...
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