Tdesktop: Text formatting as bold, italic/emphasized, underlined and strikethrough

[ricardoantoniocm]

The idea is to support the formatting of text like on Google+ (or like Markdown, but this one only has bold and italics) by wrapping text between certain characters. For example, writing *bold text* would produce bold text.

Example possibilities:

• Underscore signs ( _ ) for _emphasized/italic text_.
• Asterisks ( * ) for bold text.
• Minus signs ( - ) for strikethrough text.
• Double underscore signs ( __ ) for underlined text.

This feature could allow a mix of these formattings, for example: *_bold and italic_* would publish as _bold and italic_ text.

This builds on the recently implemented idea of monowidth code, wrapped in backticks ( ` ), which works very similar to this.

[Cameri]

+1 for support, shouldn't be hard to implement given that we now have backticks for blocks of code.

[JuanPotato]

+1, but iirc only bots are able to send those, they are supported. Just not for users.

[ricardoantoniocm]

Comment along with closing maybe?

[auchri]

+1, but iirc only bots are able to send those, they are supported. Just not for users.

[okutane]

Can one become a bot?

[stek29]

@okutane there's no need to -- it's not an api issue anymore

[BlkPingu]

+1, but iirc only bots are able to send those, they are supported. Just not for users.

What was the idea behind this @auchri ? Telegram users need this, along with better markdown support like code highlighting

[stek29]

@BlkPingu there are already options for everything api supports.

better markdown support

that's an api issue

code highlighting

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