the language is called "Markdown", same as what Reddit and Discord use, as well as many others
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Discord markdown and reddit markdown aren't the same markdown, which I only know because I try to use ^ to make smaller words but discord won't do it.
I wonder ^if ^^lemmy ^^^let's ^^^^me ^^^^^do ^^^^^^this
It certainly does not. Maybe that's just a reddit thing. Or my app doesn't support it, idk.
Flavors of markdown are slightly different, but they share a lot in common. Also Boost has slightly different rendering than the Lemmy website UI, specifically with the spoiler tags
This guide for the Lemmy dialect looks to be reasonably comprehensive:
Because markdown by itself is more of a set of suggestions than hard rules. Kinda like saying that Americans and Australians both speak English and the basic syntax is the same, and you can go outside with a fag wearing only thongs with both, but...
Even reddit has two, new and old reddit use completely different parsers and result in different ouputs.
It shows correctly on sync
Neither PC nor Jerboa show that getting increasingly smaller and higher for me.
Thank you for the link. It has some examples, I guess that's what I'm asking for, and obviously what is included could be tweaked based on Lemmy differences, exclude things that are already in the quick format bar, etc.
I see icons along the bottom of the field, which I can tap for formatting changes. Could you check if you have something similar?
Yes, I have that (and actually found out it can scroll to the side and there is a quick link for strikethrough!) but I'd also like stuff like "embedding gifs" and other stuff that is not commonly known.
Thanks; to be clear, most if not all of this if searchable on the web, it's more having it easily referenced from within boost's text entry field somewhere as a "?" Help menu or something so that all users won't have to do that each time was my suggestion/request from Ruben.
Wouldn't the markup be the same for gifs and any other image format?
Yes but there currently isnt a button to embed images that you arent uploading from your phone. The image button only lets you upload, not enter a remote image URL. Maybe that would be the easiest one to change for @[email protected] ?