Okay, Not sure if this is standard markdown or Discourse bug, but if you use markdown and have a whitespace before/after the text it breaks: This works fine when I use the bold button ** This doesn’t since I have a space before the text** **And this doesn’t since I have a space after the text ** …

Yes, there are reasons MD has specs, and reasons that users should take 3 minutes of time and learn to use MD correctly (sorry to reply so directly and technically… ). It’s pretty simple, very basic markup syntax, actually: [Screen Shot 2021-02-12 at 8.21.45 PM] See also: [image] Markd…

Okay, Now I see it’s not a bug. The problem is the people, though. Nowadays it’s hard to make them read something for 3 seconds and you want them to take 3 minutes. I don’t see a way to achieve it, really. MD syntax error highlighting would be helpful actually.

[image] tpetrov: I don’t see a way to achieve it, really. Hmm. Well, we have been running a coding forum for over two decades, and we find users will learn whatever we asked them to learn if we explain to them or provide them a link to a tutorial; and when users make a mistake our mods edit …

Whitespace before or after bold markers causes bold not to work

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) February 12, 2021, 1:03pm 2

I’m pretty sure this is markdown spec, not Discourse. An engineer should be able to confirm.

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Whitespace before or after bold markers causes bold not to work

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