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mekentosj

20 Mar, 2013 10:12 PM

Hi guys,

It seems somewhere the markdown parsing was broken recently.

This page http://pfw.mekentosj.com/kb/roadmap/papers-for-windows-roadmap contains these fragments:

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#New and upcoming

Many of our users have asked us to give them more insights into what they can expect in the next updates of Papers for Windows. On this page we'll give you a glimpse into our kitchen and let you know what we're cooking. We'll do our best to regularly update the page so check back frequently if you want to know what's coming...

##Syncing with Papers for iOS

Papers for Windows does not yet support syncing with Papers on your iOS device, we're very hard at work to bring a solution as soon as possible.

Which used to work fine (in fact if you go to http://support.mekentosj.com/kb/roadmap/papers-for-mac-roadmap you can see the exact same snippet rendered nicely. However when I now edit the page and save suddenly all the headings are no longer rendered :-(

I also noted that while previously this:

  **Syncing with Papers for iOS **

would be rendered nicely in bold, also that is broken, it no longer accepts the space before the closing ** and only gets made bold if I type:

  **Syncing with Papers for iOS**

Hope you can fix this
Alex

1. 1 Posted by Julien on 20 Mar, 2013 10:44 PM

   

   Hi Alex,

   The library we used for Markdown was pretty outdated and had all sorts of bugs, so we switched to a newer one. It's been a few weeks I think. As a result, the newer library seems to be stricter than the old one, but it also handles avoid stupid mistakes such as:

   1. Number 1

   2. Number 2

   which would previously render:

   1. Number 1
   1. Number 2
   

   In your FAQ, you simply need to use:

   # Title
   **bold**
   

   instead of (note the difference in spaces):

   #Title
   **bold **
   

   Hope that makes sense. I usually use http://mouapp.com/ on Mac to make sure everything looks as expected on long articles. I think Nicole already fixed those for you.

   Let me know if you have questions.

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2. Julien closed this discussion on 21 Mar, 2013 12:06 AM.