Is it possible that we could get limited support for Markdown? For every subject support for bold, italics, and blockquotes would be useful for formatting. In other subjects, such as Computer Science, code blocks and inline code would be useful.

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farmdawgnation · Answer

I've been thinking about this for awhile. The concern, of course, is adding another layer of processing on the client side (since this would, most likely, happen on the client). But, as with anything, if there's a lot of community demand for it we are willing to take another look.

anonymous · Answer

I don't think that there will be a lot of community demand for this as not a lot of the community knows about it. If you go to the Mathematics group you will see that people don't even format their equations properly. So the biggest battle would be to educate the masses.

farmdawgnation · Answer

@dunsmoreb FYI. We did a release today that adds `inline code` and fenced code blocks a-la-GitHub style, with syntax coloring:

```javascript
alert("Hello!");
```

To get that, you type:

\`\`\`javascript
alert("Hello!");
\`\`\`

If you don't provide a language, we will try to guess what it is, but we may be wrong. ;)