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Feature request: Definition lists
Typora is a very good tool to organize notes for scientists since it supports MathJax. However, there will be cases where those people write theorems, propositions, lemmas, definitions, etc. If there will be a syntax for writing these, that will be super-great for those people. StackEdit has implemented such syntax and it is open-source:
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Hope Typora can provide such syntax, thanks!
Yes please! Love this idea. I find myself wanting to do this all the time & tend to use bold & quote blocks but this would be so much neater.
+1 the definition pattern is common in the Java specs also
The name of this feature in Pandoc's terminology for extensions is definition_lists
In general, Pandoc's default set of extensions is very useful, and probably provides a "sweet spot" of default (or optional) features for Typora.
Other Pandoc extensions I use and would like to see in Typora are:
shortcut_reference_links: syntax like [foo] as short for [foo][]
fenced_divs: fences (with attributes) for <div> elements like :::: {#id .class}
bracketed_spans: link-like brackets can be attributed like [my stuff]{.mystyle}
Of course this assumes that Typora would do something with the style, etc., which is probably a large project.
I see that #369 addresses the larger questions about Typora's version of markdown.
One workaround for the lack of definition lists is simply to convert my markdown source to GFM, as pandoc -tgfm < myfile.md > myfile.gfm. That seems to robustly produce a file that typora can read.
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I use this feature in almost every document. I'd love to have this feature enabled ❤️
All features of Markdown's basic and extended syntaxes should be supported by Typora. Definition lists are part of the extended syntax. Other elements belonging to the extended syntax, like strikethrough or footnotes, are already supported by Typora. I look forward to the addition of definition lists and the completion of Typora's Markdown syntax support.
I also agree that pandoc's default extensions are a good feature set for typora. Typora already uses pandoc for rendering anyways.
Found my way here through the search engines too. Definition lists would be very welcome!
I'd welcome this feature that is the only formatting feature I'm missing from Typora. This feature is a must have for every type of user, not only for scientists!
Definiton lists have been around since html 1.0 and are supported in quite a few markdown-dialects. Please add support for definition lists. They are unfortunately way too underused and people keep using semantically incorrect markup to simulate them.
