GUI for Markdown

[gurksallad]

Hi

We use the MantisBT Formatting-plugin to enable markdown and this works well. However, some of the users are having a hard time remembering all the tags and shortcuts, despite having printed a "cheat sheet" for use.

Question: is there any sort of a gui / toolbar that adds markdown tags? (Just like this forum has got a toolbar right above where I write text; if I click "B" tags are added and I can add the text to be bold)

[acoder2020]

+1 our users would 100% benefit from this

[acoder2020]

A quick search turned this up:

https://github.com/ejyothi/MantisBT-MarkDownEditor

I haven't used it but am going to try and install now.

[acoder2020]

This gives buttons at the top but is not WYSIWYG in the editor window. Having the latter would make this a lot more appealing to end users whose job is caring for patients, they are used to word and would be 100% more comfortable with WYSIWYG editing.

[gurksallad]

I just tested this plugin and it works okay. It's not WYSIWYG but there is a "Preview"-button so you can, well, preview before you add the ticket note.

[acoder2020]

It doesn't handle " or < or > very well though.

[raspopov]

I'm currently developing a plugin to support markdown using MantisBT's built-in parser (Parsedown 1.7) or any other parsers available through plugins: https://github.com/raspopov/MantisParsedown

There hasn't been a release yet, but the plugin works and is already quite usable. The idea was to make an interface similar to GitHub, and not use any external markup libraries. I'd be glad for feedback.