@dan I’d like to know what the plan is for the Typography component and when we can expect it to support all of the missing features that would allow it to better handle displaying the contents of MD files from the CMS. It seems this component has not seen any attention in some time, and it is the …

Showing my total ignorance here of things I have not tried what exactly is the Typography component? What are the advantages of using one of those instead of just adding the Text component to a container and playing around with that?

The typography component is geared towards long-form text and can be controlled through settings you create in the Theme Editor. This allows you to specify styling for all of the standard HTML elements, like headings. Then, when you enter text in the component and specify something like a HEADING 4,…

I don’t use Markdown or CMS but can see advantages of having different size/style fonts in the same box rather than doing it the clumsy way I do it. Will have to have a play around.

[image] handshaper: I’d like to know what the plan is for the Typography component and when we can expect it to support all of the missing features that would allow it to better handle displaying the contents of MD files from the CMS. We’re VERY aware we need to get back to this an update. So…

Can we have text flow effect like this : [RWE txt flow]

Where to start! In theory, it would need to support everything you can do with Markdown if it is going to serve as the means of displaying content from an MD file. This implies support for both ordered and unordered lists, as you mentioned, but more importantly, embedded images. If I look at all o…

This page ( https://commonmark.org/help/ ) basically defines everything I’d want in Typography. Basically, we need common Markdown support.

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ttang (Tommy) August 27, 2025, 9:10am 6

Can we have text flow effect like this :

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