If you’re using chrome desktop then you can use Ctrl+Shift+V to paste as plain text instead of notepad.
Also in the admin site settings page, you can disable this fancy pasting behavior by unchecking the “enable rich text paste” option.
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Thanks, but my goal is to keep the original formatting from microsoft word (in the raw data), not strip it down to plain text.
Currently, Discourse removes a variety of the formatting–such as font size and font type, while leaving others (bold and italics seem to stay there). As a comparison, Gmail composer seems to leave all formatting.
To try to keep more formatting, I suppose an alternative would be to upload a word document (not paste in text to the composer–but upload the actual doc). The problem there, I think, is that discourse does not show the contents of the upload inline (it just displays an upload link).
Then paste the raw HTML.
There are different goals involved. Gmail’s goal is to preserve all the formatting, whereas a forum’s goal is to keep a meaningful subset of it while preventing abuse (huge text, blinking text, OVERLY LARGE FONTS, annoying colours, etc.)
As a simple example, here is some simple text’s HTML as generated by Office, present in the clipboard as text/html:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<title></title>
<meta name="generator" content="LibreOffice 7.1.2.2 (Linux)"/>
<style type="text/css">
@page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm; margin: 2cm }
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 115%; background: transparent }
</style>
</head>
<body lang="en-CA" link="#000080" vlink="#800000" dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%">
<b>Hello there</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> sunshine </span><i><span style="font-weight: normal">eh</span></i></p>
</body>
</html>
It looks like:
@page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm; margin: 2cm } p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 115%; background: transparent }Hello there sunshine eh
But when interpreted by to-markdown.js you get:
**Hello there** sunshine *eh*
Hello there sunshine eh
You cannot, unless you put it there yourself as I did in this post. If you really need it there, hide it in a comment. If you want to later convert it yourself to markdown, use something like pandoc.
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I support transferring to markdown on the post that is displayed to others for some consistency. It’s the raw entry I’m curious about.
How do you get the raw html of a word doc that you could paste in?
Save it as HTML from Word, or copy it to the clipboard and pull the text/html explicitly from the clipboard.
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If all you care about is being able to reference the raw input at a later point, this component might work for you.
It adds a button to the post menu that shows the raw content on a per-post basis.
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@jomaxro, ¿cuál es la sintaxis para el marcado sin formato de un comentario?
¿Qué estás preguntando? ¿Estás preguntando qué es markdown? ¿Como https://commonmark.org/ ¿Estás preguntando cómo obtener el markdown sin procesar de una publicación? ¿Como /raw/123?
Para una sola publicación, puedes añadir la ID a la URL. Por ejemplo, https://meta.discourse.org/raw/189183/27 es tu respuesta.
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@jomaxro, /raw/ no funciona en ninguna de las publicaciones de discuss.kde.org/c/community/blogs/24, ya que en view-source:discuss.kde.org/raw/43656, observo:
<pre>Konqi | 2026-01-23 22:43:37 UTC | #1
<p>Leaking memory is impolite. It’s messy, it can suggest logic bugs, and thanks to AI grifters RAM is expensive.</p>
<hr>
<small>This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at <a href="https://nicolasfella.de/posts/detecting-leaks-in-kde-ci/?utm_source=atom_feed">https://nicolasfella.de/posts/detecting-leaks-in-kde-ci/?utm_source=atom_feed</a></small>
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</pre>
…mientras que, cuando el details se expande interactivamente en discuss.kde.org/t/43656, puedo expandirlo a:
¿Se podría atender esto de manera factible en el extremo de Discourse del upstream? He observado algo similar en otras instancias de Discourse, ligeramente personalizadas, por eso pregunto.
¿Qué problema estás tratando de resolver?
Esos temas son especiales porque son enlaces a publicaciones grandes.
Ese es el texto sin formato del op.
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El texto sin procesar de la OP en ese tema es:
○ → curl https://discuss.kde.org/posts/132565/raw
<p>Leaking memory is impolite. It’s messy, it can suggest logic bugs, and thanks to AI grifters RAM is expensive.
</p>
<hr>
<small>This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at <a href="https://nicolasfella.de/posts/detecting-leaks-in-kde-ci/?utm_source=atom_feed">https://nicolasfella.de/posts/detecting-leaks-in-kde-ci/?utm_source=atom_feed</a></small>
Esto es exactamente lo que se renderiza en la versión cocinada.
No es un bloque de details lo que se expande. Un clic en Show Full Post carga algo más, que es la expansión completa del embed, que no proviene del texto sin procesar de la publicación sino de metadatos adicionales de la publicación.
Puedes ver la solicitud de red en tu navegador cuando haces clic en ella, aquí está el equivalente:
○ → curl -s -H 'accept: application/json' 'https://discuss.kde.org/posts/132565/expand-embed' | jq -r .cooked
<div><div>
<p>Leaking memory is impolite. It’s messy, it can suggest logic bugs, and thanks to AI grifters RAM is expensive.</p>
…
…
…
<p>LSAN is now enabled for some Frameworks CI builds, but ideally it would be enabled for all KDE projects. And of course any leaks found along the way should be fixed.</p>
<p>Happy leak-fixing!</p>
</div></div>
<hr>
<small>This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at <a href='https://nicolasfella.de/posts/detecting-leaks-in-kde-ci/?utm_source=atom_feed'>https://nicolasfella.de/posts/detecting-leaks-in-kde-ci/?utm_source=atom_feed</a></small>
¿Querías ver el contenido del embed? Si es así, usa el anterior. Si no, ¿qué esperas ver?
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@supermathie, en efecto. ¡Muchas gracias! Evidentemente, existe mucho más de la API de Discourse de lo que yo sabía.
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