[okular] [Bug 488497] Markdown not respecting linebreak

[Sune Vuorela]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488497

Sune Vuorela <kde at pusling.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Sune Vuorela <kde at pusling.com> ---
(In reply to machinedreamcatcher from comment #2)
> Thank you for noting this. So it is not a bug indeed and more of a feature
> request (not sure if there is room for this here).
> 
> I was actually under the impression it was a bug due to the fact all the
> places I have been editing markdown (Joplin, Zotero, Typora as desktop
> editors, or websites such as popular software forges) are actually following
> as a base a common spec called CommonMark (sometimes referred-to as
> "Github-flavoured"). It seems to me relatively widespread, even if not the
> unique path as you demonstrated. 
> 
> Would it make sense to integrate this one to Okular (implementations of it
> already exist in a bunch of languages)?
> https://spec.commonmark.org/
> https://github.com/commonmark/commonmark-spec/wiki/List-of-CommonMark-
> Implementations

I do think that - at some point - it could make sense to switch Okular from
libdiscount to Qt's recently-ish gained markdown support (iirc based upon md4c)
but don't hold your breath for it. Will happily review patches though.

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