[MlMt] strikethrough

Bryce Wray bwray at wraytx.com
Wed May 13 06:54:56 EDT 2020


On 13 May 2020, at 4:08, Patrick Schratz wrote:

> The common GitHub markdown notation for strikethrough is `~~` - 
> however it may only render for others if they have an email program 
> that renders (GitHub) markdown I assume? Which almost no-one has.
>
> Mh, MailMate also neither renders the markdown or html preview for me:
>
> # html
> <s>strikethrough</s>
>
> # GitHub Markdown
> ~strikethrough~

Apparently, MailMate uses “pure” Markdown, which doesn’t support 
strikethrough as a result of a decision by Markdown creator John Gruber:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/11/05/markdown-strikethrough-slack


Best wishes,

Bryce Wray
bwray at wraytx.com
https://brycewray.com


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