Strikethrough in Markdown

[+Optimist on the run]

How do I do strike-through text in this new markdown language (the equivalent of the old <s>text</s> in html)? According to Wikipedia it should be ~~text~~, but that doesn't seem to work. For example see this log.

[+thomfre]

How do I do strike-through text in this new markdown language (the equivalent of the old <s>text</s> in html)? According to Wikipedia it should be ~~text~~, but that doesn't seem to work. For example see this log.

Strikethrough is not supported by geocaching.com:

https://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=739

[+Optimist on the run]

How do I do strike-through text in this new markdown language (the equivalent of the old <s>text</s> in html)? According to Wikipedia it should be ~~text~~, but that doesn't seem to work. For example see this log.

Strikethrough is not supported by geocaching.com:

https://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=739

 

Why not? it's supposed to be a valid feature in markdown. I understood that this was supposed to be an adequate replacement for html.

[+sloth96]

Well, I agree that I would have have liked the ~~~strikethrough~~~ rendered on the site.

 

However as the markdown equivalents are supposed to look good even when not rendered, why not just use it?

[+Optimist on the run]

Well, I agree that I would have have liked the ~~~strikethrough~~~ rendered on the site.

 

However as the markdown equivalents are supposed to look good even when not rendered, why not just use it?

 

I did. But it just makes it look as though I was emphasising it, rather than striking-it out.

[HiddenGnome]

Strike-through is not officially supported in Markdown, according to the original specifications which is what our implementation is originally based on. I'm not saying there aren't valid use-cases, only that it is not currently supported.

 

If you want to read more about it from the author of the spec:

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

[cezanne]

If you want to read more about it from the author of the spec:

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

 

You would not have such problems if you introduced an option to allow users to choose between Markdown and plain text in their logs (that option would be magnificent anyway and it also would allow to get rid of the editor and the second text window for those who want to write a plain text log). You offer this type of choice also for cache listings (html vs plain text).

Edited February 11, 2016 by cezanne

[+TriciaG]

If you want to read more about it from the author of the spec:

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

 

You would not have such problems if you introduced an option to allow users to choose between Markdown and plain text in their logs (that option would be magnificent anyway and it also would allow to get rid of the editor and the second text window for those who want to write a plain text log). You offer this type of choice also for cache listings (html vs plain text).

How would the lack of a strikethrough option be solved if you were allowed a plain text log?

[cezanne]

If you want to read more about it from the author of the spec:

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

 

You would not have such problems if you introduced an option to allow users to choose between Markdown and plain text in their logs (that option would be magnificent anyway and it also would allow to get rid of the editor and the second text window for those who want to write a plain text log). You offer this type of choice also for cache listings (html vs plain text).

How would the lack of a strikethrough option be solved if you were allowed a plain text log?

 

Have you read the text which is linked above?

One could more easily allow a strikethrough option in GS's markdown implementation when there is no danger that something which is not intended as markdown strikethrough because it's plaintext does not get interpreted as strikethrough. Clear now?

 

Also several of the restrictions of the implemented Markdown that got established over the last couple of days would not have been necessary if there existed a switch for Markdown.

Edited February 11, 2016 by cezanne