iPad: Rich text editor planned?

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Hi guys,

I have a feature request: Would it be possible to implement the rich text editor (wysiwyg) on iPad OS? I use Joplin as a "PowerPoint replacement" to show instructions to my students on an interactive whiteboard (usually just short prompts / QR codes / tasks to be done in their schoolbooks).
That is very well doable in presentation / view mode.

When I want to change something quickly, I have to switch to edit mode and my whole layout looks rather messy with all the tags, md formatting symbols etc.

Being able to use a wysiwyg editor (hiding all that stuff and showing images at the same time) would be indeed quite nice.

Plus, as I am rather lazy and come from standard text processor and OneNote use, I prefer creating notes in the wysiwyg editor and not in the md editor (though I can completely understand why more keyboard-savvy folks prefer the md).

Cheers
Martin

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AFAIK the future of wysiwyg is a bit uncertain because of the licensing -- developer changed it for the newer versions. So now, we're probably going to stay on older version which will have no dev support :person_shrugging:

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It's possible to do some of this with the Extra Markdown Editor Settings plugin's "hide markdown" setting set to "More (experimental)". When enabled, a subset of Markdown on lines that don't contain the cursor is rendered.

At present:

  • It doesn't render HTML tags.
  • Math (KaTeX) is rendered as MathML (discarding the HTML output).
  • Image rendering doesn't work when running Joplin mobile in a web browser.
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Neat, that looks already much better!! Thank you!