[MlMt] strikethrough

aisrael alain.israel at pasteur.fr
Wed May 13 09:57:24 EDT 2020


Thank you, I had missed this menu command, and it works great. It is a 
bit weird as the strikethrough is not a straight line (how can they 
implement a crooked line?), but who cares…..
Alain

On 13 May 2020, at 14:48, Guillaume Barrette wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   First, MailMate has a s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ 
> feature, but it seems it's not based on markdown, but on ASCII 
> character. Which is great for people who want to read the plain text 
> version of the email and don't know the markdown way of strikethrough.
>
> You can find this feature in the menubar at: `Format > Strikethrough` 
> or CMD+X by default I think
>
> Regarding the markdown processor, from what I've seen, MailMate uses 
> `sundown`. You can find the processor at:
>
> `/Applications/MailMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/sundown`
>
> However, I don't know if Benny customized it for MailMate.
>
> One thing worth noting, from the sundown GitHub page, we can see that 
> is fully standard compliant, but has optional support for several 
> non-standard Markdown extensions like:
>
> - non-strict emphasis
> - fenced code blocks
> - tables
> - autolinks
> - strikethrough
> - and more...
>
> So, maybe the strikethrough extension is simply not activated by 
> Benny? Maybe it would be great to activate this option from sundown 
> (I'm asking Benny here as a feature request ;) )?
>
> Another point regarding aisrael question, that made me think of 
> [CriticMarkup](http://criticmarkup.com). Maybe it would be great to 
> add CriticMarkup as an extension like we have for the Math language or 
> Highlight code feature or as a bundle (if possible)
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Guillaume
>
> On 13 May 2020, at 8:29, Charlie Clark wrote:
>
>> On 13 May 2020, at 14:19, Bryce Wray wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, you are absolutely correct, sir. My mistake. As a Multi-MD fan 
>>> myself, wish it were an option. Maybe someday…
>>
>> Two things:
>> * the documentation should detail what is supported (and possibly 
>> what isn't supported)
>> * if we knew which library was being used we might be able to see if 
>> it can be fixed upstream
>>
>> But basically, MailMate falls down frequently because of inadequate 
>> documentation. It would be nice to "open source" the documentation at 
>> least so that some power users could contribute to it. That said, I 
>> fully understand that even just setting up a dedicated (sub?) repo 
>> for this would be work.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
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