Answer by Nisse Engström for What to do when a tiny edit would markedly...
In this particular case, I would change the list markers from 3) to 3.. This will cause the text to be marked up as a proper HTML list.If you then prefix the code block with eight spaces, it will be...
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I recently wanted to quote a part of a technical document, such as this:6.2.1 Scopes of identifiersAs a special case, a type name (which is not a declaration of an identifier) is considered to have a...
View ArticleOutdated link in syntax highlighting help page [duplicate]
Not exactly a broken link, but:The help center page on syntax highlighting contains a link to one of the supported prettify language codes.The details in this answer have been removed and the link...
View ArticleAnswer by Nisse Engström for How should I review a low quality question on...
Images of code and error messages are not very useful since they won't be indexed by search engines and you can't (easily) copy them to your favourite editor, where you can search and replace, compile,...
View ArticleAnswer by Nisse Engström for Updating an old answer broke all of the links
Here's what the Markdown help has to say:Block-level HTML elements have a few restrictions:They must be separated from surrounding text by blank lines.The begin and end tags of the outermost block...
View ArticleAnswer by Nisse Engström for Why would you mark an answer as Community Wiki?
When I come across an old question where the user has edited their solution into the question, and the user is no longer around, I sometimes remove the solution from the question and repost it as a...
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Code snippet breaks Markdown parser
When editing a post, the Markdown parser in the Preview seems to break down after a code snippet. Everything (except the pre-formatted text) following the code snippet in Example A below appears...
View ArticleHiding attribution of quoted material
I recently came across a suggested edit which I found questionable. Most of the edit was good, so it was finally approved.However, one part of the post, similar to this:Quoted material from external...
View ArticleAnswer by Nisse Engström for Burninate [codepen]?
It seems to me that quite a few of the [codepen] questionsare actually about CodePen and how code hosted on CodePen behaves differently than code hosted elsewhere.My opinion is that:the tag can stay...
View ArticleAnswer by Nisse Engström for The use of for formatting code hides symbols
When you use the {} code formatting tool, it indents your code by four spaces. This indentation is then converted by the Markdown parser into a <pre><code> block with all the special...
View ArticleAdd notice to disabled Stack Snippets
I recently learned that Stack Snippets are disabled automatically when a post's score drops below -2.This can cause confusion when the Snippet mysteriously fails to work for no apparent reason.Instead...
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