[Roundup-users] Fwd: rich text editor to allow for formatted input

[John R. <ro...@ie...>]

I sent this to Norbert without including the list apparently.

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From: John Rouillard <ro...@ie...>
Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Roundup-users] rich text editor to allow for formatted input


Norbert asked:

> I would like to replace the "Note" field with a rich text editor to allow for
> formatted input (Markdown or HTML).

The jinja template uses simplemde so you can look there for ideas.
See: https://issues.roundup-tracker.org/issue2550856

As far as adding that to the classic template, there are no plans for
that at this time.
One issue with markdown is that it is not standardized. So the same
markup can have different presentation in a client side editor or the
server side rendered note.
See: https://issues.roundup-tracker.org/issue2551105 for one example.

However using a text input box with a preview button powered by server
side rendering could be suitable. Se
https://issues.roundup-tracker.org/msg6814 which is part of
issue2550856.

https://issues.roundup-tracker.org/issue2551176 mentions markdown-it
and markdown-py use. which are related implementations of what one
hopes is a single markdown understanding. Something like:
https://markdown-it.github.io/ for editing might work.

-- rouilj