Bookstack: Switch between Markdown and WYSIWYG when editing pages

[pommetjehorlepiep]

Desired Feature:

I'd love to be able to switch between Markdown & WYSIWYG when editing pages.

Much better than: go into the settings, change the editing mode and edit page(s) and once finished go back in settings to set mode back again.

[ffub]

I would also like this. This functionality is handled well in a number of static site editors such as https://www.siteleaf.com/

[ssddanbrown]

Thanks for opening this feature request.

This is very closely related to #119 and #458.

@ffub Have you seen any more complex editors that do this? Many I've seen are really built markdown-first so are fairly limited to just the core markdown formattings options. Just something that includes tables & text alignment and possibly custom formats.

[ffub]

Realistically, switching between WYSIWYG and Markdown will mean storing the
file in the latter.

Toast UI allows for tables and code blocks.

I think a limited set of semantic elements and a storage format such as
Markdown is a benefit. It keeps pages from ending up full of junk HTML copy
and pasted from webpages and word processors.

The only elements that I think are handled poorly by Markdown are images. I
pretty much always want to add a caption to an image, and the

element is a really clean way to handle them in running text.

On 19 May 2018 at 15:25, Dan Brown [e-mail] wrote:

Thanks for opening this feature request.

This is very closely related to #119
https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/issues/119 and #458
https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/issues/458.

@ffub https://github.com/ffub Have you seen any more complex editors
that do this? Many I've seen are really built markdown-first so are fairly
limited to just the core markdown formattings options. Just something that
includes tables & text alignment and possibly custom formats.

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[NickeZ]

XWiki allows the author of the document to switch between markup formats in a lossy way.

[JHenneberg]

The TOAST ui editor looks realy promising.

Markdown Wysiwyg Editor - Productive and Extensible
Live Preview, Scrolling, Syn, Auto indent, Syntax highlight

It looks also very similar to the currently used one. You can edit either in markdown or in the WYSIWYG.
https://ui.toast.com/tui-editor

[tlnagy]

The TOAST ui editor looks realy promising.

This would be amazing. I think I'll have a much easier time convincing my group to use the markdown version of the wiki if it included some WYSIWYG features. Right now there's a trade-off: portability in markdown mode and discoverability/convenience in WYSIWYG mode.

[GammaGames]

I've actually used toast in projects, it's very good. I have the option to switch between the WYSIWYG editor and the regular markdown editor so it's easy for anyone to use how they want.

[kayvanaarssen]

This would be awesome. We use this in our Wordpress KB as well