Using Markdown to highlight text

[wojtek]

There was another topic about this:

@guillempalausalva

Official support of Markdown in Anki was asked a few months ago. Damien answer was that native markdown support will come in the future, althoug is not a priority. So perhaps adding this capability into the main code would be better than via add-on, as you may learn Python just for the sake of the add-on. Anki backend is being rebuilt in Rust, in case you are familiar with it.

is this still relevant? Is there any chance to have markdown support?

@dae

The current visual/HTML editors make sense because each can be losslessly converted to the other. Markdown is considerably more difficult - not all HTML can be represented in markdown (except via embedded HTML), and the conversion process is intended to be done in one direction.

Hmm… Maybe a field configuration option: “this field is markdown” so it would be markdown-first (and then you can add html for more formatting if needed)

Though, I’m not sure I agree with the above stance - even this exact forum has markdown support and it’s possible to write it manually or use formatting options and “it just works”

@matta

Is it just the readability of the code, as you write it, that is the issue?

Uhm… markdown is just simpler if one only cares about the basics (bold/italics, lists and tables). Doing that with HTML is just super convoluted. Not to mention absolute lack of support for adding/editing tables and having to deal with them via HTML just make me want hurt myself (I just wanted to add some simple table to one of the cards and basically ended searching the forum for markdown support as editing it in markdown would be way simpler :D).

Not to mention that having limited formatting could be preferred as it would give you mor consistent look across platformas and you wouldn’t have to worry that something god added to the code in html that you didn’t need…