Why have you folks ever chosen Markdown? Using a blog template because I want to use Elements to publish my weblog, I get problem after problem. Just one thing to illustrate, I don’t want to complain to much. Below I’ll paste a blog snippet. Can anyone explain me why the second link in the Markdown changes into a real link in Safari while the first link shows up as text? Would be very helpful for me.
I’m not sure if I’m understanding correctly what you mean. Basically, both are Markdown links and both “work.”
Both the first link and the second one. With the second one, however, the path to the desired URL doesn’t seem to match, which is why you get an error message from the server.
Thanks for your reply. You are right about the second link. The path doesn’t match, the subpage doesn’t exist anymore. This blog post comes from my old WordPress blog and I haven’t checked all the links yet. But that’s not my problem. Below a screenshot from the preview of my Elements blog in Safari. The second link is displayed as a link, just as it should. The first link, however, is displayed as text. And I don’t see any difference between the two in my Markdown file.
This perfectly illustrates my problem with Markdown. My browser seems to decide how to show the code. I showed my screenshot from Safari above and you show your screenshot from Safari. And they differ in several ways. Not only the first link , but also the blockquote and the heading are different. I’m not a developer but a user with a weblog who wants to give his readers a good layout. Markdown seems to make that very difficult for me.
I am uncertain as to why one of your links is showing up differently. @dan
I have discovered that how Markdown appearance is controlled by the Typography settings. I found that the standard Theme Typography - “article” did not give me what I wanted for Markdown. So I created a Custom Typography that I named Markdown. You can define all of the parameters that you want for blockquote or the headers. The only caveat that I found was if you set a color for Paragraph, it overrides the color under Quote.
I then just specified the Style Markdown in the the Markdown component or in the Typography component that is displaying the file in the CMS. Through Dan’s help with some CSS coding in the Advanced area have been able to add a vertical line in front of the block quote.
Thanks for all this. I did already make some changes to the Typography component before I started this thread. That’s probably the reason why my screenshot differs from your screenshot. I suppose you pasted my Markdown in one of your own projects and then made a screenshot.
But I didn’t realize I could change the look of a bloc quote too. I changed it and it looks much better now than in the screenshot above. One last question. Would you share the custom CSS you use to add a vertical line in front of the block quote?
