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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

(unlike Reddit, for example)

I use bold and italic a lot in post titles. Some of the other stuff wouldn't make much sense I don't think, but every little bit helps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I mean, code could work and maybe ^superscript^ or ~subscript~ and that's about it I think

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can you create headings in headings?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can, and it'll probably get annoying if everyone catches on!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OK, I will never use it again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are sub and superscript officially supported by markdown now? Or is that a Lemmy-specific extension?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Lemmy-ui uses markdown-it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/blob/main/package.json#L65

Markdown-it follows the CommonMark spec with extensions: https://spec.commonmark.org/current/ As I see superscript is not part of the spec, but listed in the markdown-it readme as a plugin, so I guess it's coming from there: https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it?tab=readme-ov-file#syntax-extensions

They are also listed in package.json:

    "markdown-it-sub": "^2.0.0",
    "markdown-it-sup": "^2.0.0",

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/blob/main/package.json#L73

Lemmy docs about markdown support: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html#text

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it's fine to use unique platform features like this, but if you're actually using this actively, be aware that not everyone will see your titles as you intended them. It's only Lemmy users that can see it actually render "properly", everyone else just sees the plaintext Markdown symbols.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Hmm, sounds like a good point. Here's my sub:
https://lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels

Can you tell me how our formatting might be messing search engines and stuff..?