How to underline app with Android app

Operating system

Android

Joplin version

3.2.12

Desktop version info

On Samsung mobile

Sync target

Dropbox

Editor

Markdown Editor

What issue do you have?

Hello, I'm trying to underline a text part, but the icon is not visible. I can see bold, italic and others, but no underline...

And even in the toolbar configuration, it does not appear

Could you tell me how to do please?

Regards

Yea, there is no button for this. First time i recognize this. :sweat_smile:

You can underline with

<u>underline text</u>

Not so convinient like a button, but for now it maybe helps.

woh... really ?
Do you know if this new feature coming soon ? It's quite a basic need

Thank you for the tip, but using such a HTML code is not very practical :joy:

Or go to the settings for Markdown in the Android app and check that "Enable ++insert++ syntax" is on. Then surrounding a word or phrase with ++ will underline it.

Then if you add the Menu items, shortcuts and toolbar icons plugin you will get buttons for highlight, strike through, underline, superscript and subscript (if enabled).

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I think that Markdown does not have a specification for underlining. Therefore, I do not expect it to be implemented in the near future. Apart from the HTML tag, I do not know of any way to underline a word or a sentence in markdown. :thinking:
In pandoc ==underline text== works. But this is pandoc spicific and not markdown. In Joplin it is used for highlighting, I learnd a few moments ago... :rofl:

I'm surprised because on the desktop version we have the strikethrough icon, but this it absent on mobile Android app.

But I'm sure the Underline style is a lot more common than strikethrough.

Unfortunalely, "==" does not work

See two posts above your last one...

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I've found this, ++text++ works fine, when activating the settings :

That's great, it is a lot more practical than <> :slightly_smiling_face:

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The "Menu items, Shortcuts, Toolbar icons" plugin adds additional buttons to the Markdown toolbar. I think one of them is an "underline" button.

Edit: This was mentioned above by @dpoulton. (Thank you for helping answer this!)

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As mentioned earlier, it is.

When using the plugin the user only needs to be aware that the corresponding settings in the app that you have to have enabled for all the plugin buttons to work are:

Setting Button
==mark== highlight
~sub~ sub-script
^sup^ super-script
++insert++ underline

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Thank you, but yes, as I wrote, I've found it from the other Post above

Thank you dpoulton, I did not see your previous replies (I did not receive email)

Maybe I need to file an issue on this: Insert does not mean Underline to most people (unless they know HTML). But, I assume Joplin is not only targetting HTML-savvy people. And even for people who know HTML, many probably have no clue about that tag. And Mark doesn't obviously mean Highlight. (Though it is more obvious than insert is to underline.)

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Yes, you're right I know HTML but Insertion means nothing for me (underline term is more common for me)

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