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Viewing the potential live output when editing a question or answer.

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I have just raised a Q and A but when editing the answer (that involves a picture) there is no "live" version of the potentially finished post and this will prove to be a problem when making a complex answer especially if MathJax/Latex is used. SE.EE does support this feature and I think it's vital.

Also, there is no facility to renumber the bullet points. If you look in my answer, there are two bullet points names "1".

This is what I see when editing an answer: -

__ Well I tried to embed an image by pressing the picture button but I got javascript:void() in the bottom left corner. Yet I know java is enabled because I've just used a web page that uses it and I should know because it's one of my own web pages __

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posted almost 4 years ago
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I recommend using native HTML for lists, and most other formatting for that matter. HTML gets around the ambiguity of what is an item and what is text following the list. The list isn't over until the </ol> tag.

For more information about formatting, see the Formatting Posts document in the site help. This is at https://electrical.codidact.com/help/formatting.

posted almost 4 years ago
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manassehkatz‭ wrote almost 4 years ago
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Personal preference. I happen to think using markdown for everything is better - I actually wish markdown was ever so slightly more complete so that no html would be needed. I mean, 4 characters for bold (asterisk asterisk start and finish) and super easy to type compared to a minimum of 7 characters using HTML. Similar for lists - e.g., unordered lists just an asterisk and a space on each line instead of a ul tag to start/finish and li tag on each line. Doesn't get batter than that.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote almost 4 years ago · edited almost 4 years ago
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@manass: Markdown is simpler, but that simplicity comes at the cost of ambiguity and too many unintended markups. I also don't want to have to remember two syntaxes. Use markup if you like, but please make sure all the same formatting features continue to be available via some subset of HTML. Actually, it would be nice to be able to force markup off so that it doesn't "helpfully" decide to format when I use an asterisk, a few dashes, or whatever, for other reasons.