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#1178 simple markdown syntax for notes fields

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Labels: It would be COOL if it did... (440)

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Updated: 2010-01-03

Created: 2010-01-03

Creator: Tim Hockin

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Large text fields like notes would really benefit from something like Markdown syntax. Being able to bold, italicize, and pre-format text would be really nice for preserving annotations.

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Veit - 2010-01-03

Interesting idea. But this information couldn't be transfered via GEDCOM to other systems, because it isn't specified in the GEDCOM standard. So probably other programs would't understand it.

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Tim Hockin - 2010-01-03

The nice thing about Markdown is that it is human readable, but yeah, I guess PGV would mis-serve other data that happens to look like markdown.

Perhaps just preserving whitespace would be enough.

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Tim Hockin - 2010-01-03

Sorry, to be clearer: If you find a space character in a note, serve it as an HTML quot escape, and maybe serve tab characters as 4 or 8 quots

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Tim Hockin - 2010-01-03

gosh, I am brain damaged today. s/quot/nbsp/g

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