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Testing text formatting issues from Lemmy to PieFed (self.playground)
submitted 1 week ago by klu9 to c/[email protected]
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Some things seems to work as expected when posting and viewing in Lemmy but not in PieFed. So I will test a few things by making the post on Lemmy and seeing how it displays in PieFed.

1. Bold in two different places in the same sentence

This seems to go wrong in PieFed no matter if done in Lemmy or PieFed.

  • Bold in place 1 and place 2 done by manually typing two asterisks before and after those words.
  • Bold in place 1 and place 2 done by using the Lemmy Bold GUI button.

2. Italics in two different places in the same sentence

The last time I tried this in PieFed, it seemed to work fine, but I'll test it anyway.

  • Italics in place 1 and place 2 done by manually typing one asterisk before and after those words.
  • Italics in place 1 and place 2 done by manually typing one underscore before and after those words.
  • Italics in place 1 and place 2 done by using the Lemmy Italics GUI button.

3. Bold and italics immediately followed by punctuation

I think I remember seeing this go wrong in PieFed but only with posts originally made in Lemmy, where it looked fine.

  • Bold in place 1, and italics in place 2. Done by manually typing double asterisks for bold and single asterisks for italics.
  • Bold in place 1, and italics in place 2. Done by manually typing double asterisks for bold and single underscore for italics.
  • Bold in place 1, and italics in place 2. Done by Lemmy Bold GUI button for bold and Lemmy Italics GUI button for italics.
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Alright, I managed to track down the issue and rimu just pushed the changes live. So, here goes an experiment:

This is a bold sentence with two bolded words in it.

One caveat to this is that it will only correctly apply to posts from this point forward I believe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It worked!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Well done 👏

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It works! Great, thanks @wsj018 and @rimu.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Let me try.

Bold in place 1 and place 2 .

Looks good in preview!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Viewing in Lemmy

Everything OK.

Viewing in PieFed

  • Section 1: both sentences messed up. The "and" between place 1 and place 2 is bold when it shouldn't be, and an asterisk is visible after "1" and before the second "place".
  • Section 2: everything OK.
  • Section 3: everything OK. (Was that problem my imagination? Or has it been fixed in the meantime?)