Unanswered Questions
387 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Markdown change: Intra-word emphasis now works
There are tons of questions I could maybe post this as an answer to, but before choosing the best one, I'll just post this as an announcement question that can be linked elsewhere.
The short story
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Electrical Engineering needs a Markdown solution for overline
The introduction of tables was a great addition to the Electrical Engineering substack, since I often want to quote tables from electronic component datasheets. An actual table is far more functional ...
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Adding a link with a space in front causes the link to not work
When you paste a link into the "Insert Hyperlink" box, it adds it automatically as a citation link:
[Example 1][1]
[1]: http://example.com
But when you paste a link starting with a space , it ...
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Add quote markup to comments
Comments have a very restricted markup ability. Currently supported text markups available are
Italic text
Bold text
code
One of the very common things people do in comments that is not supported is ...
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Make "x identical lines skipped" expandable
Recently, I saw this revision:
I'm using the side-by-side markdown layout to see revisions. Now, I wanted to see the rest of the code to see what impact this revision had. So I think, let's click on "...
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Whitelist the <span> tag with the lang= attribute, in order to support Han characters
Currently, <span> tags are not on the whitelist of allowed HTML tags. The lang= attribute also is not permitted anywhere. In some contexts, this causes a problem with characters that are Han-...
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Can we please get a <ref>erence / [cite]ation feature?
Some stacks (or should I say: all scientific and linguistic ones) have extensive quotation needs, others do try to make people back it up, best with citations to authorities. Some Q&A might cite ...
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Reconsider adding Markdown support for footnotes
A 2009 feature request to add support for Markdown footnotes was declined in 2014.
The reason(s) for declining appear to no longer be valid:
We want to avoid creating proprietary additions to ...
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Markdown table preview does not detect missing blank line before table header
When I edited an answer on Electrical Engineering Meta to add a second markdown table, both the first and second tables rendered correctly in preview, but the second table does not render. I've waited ...
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Prevent Markdown links from escaping the tilde character (~) on Stack Exchange
When Linking to a Text Fragment, :~:text= is used as part of the URL to identify text to highlight:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/370143/#:~:text=to%20identify%20text%20to%20highlight%3A
When ...
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Add "paragraphs" to Markdown help
Like balpha once explained very nicely, a <br> line break (newline) should be used
in very few cases, and surely is not the same as a new <p> paragraph. Still the Markdown help only ...
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Code marked as deleted does not look good in side by side markdown view in dark mode
Can't see deleted code
I have come across a situation in dark mode. This is a serious contrast problem according to the following preview:
It is too expensive to distinguish the text from the ...
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Please remove the horizontal whitespace in the left part of code blocks
With the new post formatting there's extra horizontal whitespace at the left of code blocks (not to be confused with the increased line height).
Before the new formatting:
Now (red circle shows the ...
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Could <samp> support be added to Stack Exchange?
Since Stack Exchange already supports <kbd> for text input, it only makes sense to support the matching output from a program, <samp>, distinctly from the program <code> itself.
If ...
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Links to answers are not formatted to show the title automatically
When including a link to a question in a post (question or answer) by copying the Link URL at the bottom of the question, the link is automatically formatted to appear as the question title:
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