Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged markdown

Markdown: features not supported

Sun, 07 Feb 2016 18:15:08 +0000

As many of our checker results produce a table of qualifying finds, I looked at converting mine to produce markdown tables. But alas, Groundspeak's implementation of Markdown has "extra mode" turned off, so:

Tables are not supported
Footnotes are not supported
Abbreviations are not supported
Embedded HTML is not supported

However, although tables are not supported directly, monospaced font is, so we can still make tables the hard way. Either:

Delimit the data with backticks: `this text will be monospaced`

or:

Indent with 4 spaces or a tab: This is a normal paragraph.

This will be a preformatted
code block.

Hope this helps!

Tom

Converter to convert BBCode/HTML to Markdown in logs

Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:39:16 +0000

As Groundspeak announced that it will switch the Markup-Code, in which logs has to be formatted, from BBCode/HTML to Markdown, a Tool would be helpful to convert old logs to new formatting - sure this could only be half-automated.

Maybe GS will add something like this but if not, this would be a nice feature to have on Project-GC.

Attn checker authors: Groundspeak dropping html support in cache logs

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:49:15 +0000

From Groundspeak:

In our continued effort to increase site security and promote cross platform compatibility, we will be removing support for HTML and UBB code in logs in favor of Markdown on February 2, 2016. These codes are used to add emphasis to text such as bold or italic type, or to add links to websites. HTML and UBB code may not always look exactly as you intended them to on some devices, while Markdown will consistently look good across all devices.

Checker authors will need to check their challenge code to remove html from any components that would be copy-and-pasted into logs.

The full articles are available here:
https://support.groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=729
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=336750

you can try Markdown here:
http://www.toptensoftware.com/markdowndeep/dingus