Is there a way of getting "pure markdown" (no wysiwyg at all) including Latex? Alternatively, a hotkey-less version of the editor (give me buttons/menus for all functionality)?

I'm asking because my browser (chromium) eats the hotkeys, and latex (testing: $\Sigma$ ) appears not to be parsed from markdown. I would be happy with any syntax you choose. For example \Sigma; alternatively the github classic of using backticks appears still unused here.

edit: huh, backticks are in use and html-tags gets eaten.

FYI the Markdown footnotes worked but messed up a couple of things: some italics where I'd only italicized part of a word (so Markdown got confused about underlinings mid-word), and a web link for some reason.

Here is a footnote reference, ^[1] and another.^[2]

Oh I see the index on the left is constructed automatically

Okay so how did you make that index on the left side of the page? :p

Command 4 does not work on safari....:(

This comment is a test! I prefer the plain-Markdown editor, but I want to try using LaTeX for one comment, so I temporarily swapped my user settings to the "rich" editor so that I could try out the LaTeX editor here. Then after submitting this comment, I'll switch my settings _back_ to Markdown, and edit this comment to see what the syntax is for using LaTeX from that editor (wrap it in $s, maybe?), which didn't seem to be explained in the post above? I would be pretty disappointed if it were to turn out that there's no way to do LaTeX from the Markdown editor, but I would also be somewhat surprised.

$P\left(\overrightarrow{X}|C\right)={\prod }_{i}P\left(x_i|C\right)$

Edit: even after switching my settings back, editing this comment gives me the rich editor? So ... I guess individual comments are saved on a per-editor basis, with no translation? I'll concede that that makes sense from a technical standpoint, but it's somewhat disappointing.

So, um, I was writing a post and I left the tab open for a few hours and the post seems to have just disappeared? While it's not impossible I accidentally clicked refresh or something, as best I can tell it was just gone when I got back, with the tab not having been touched in over an hour.

Is there a command-line tool for previewing how a "markdown+LaTeX" text file would render as a LW draft post, for those of us who prefer to manipulate text files using productivity tools like (neo)vim and git?

There seems to be an image missing after "use google to figure out how to write things like this:".

This may not be the right place for this. But gotta say it somewhere.

Overall, I like this font. But I hate hate HATE that it makes it impossible to distinguish "1" (one) from "I" (capital-i), except in the amount of horizontal space they take up. The numeral one should have a hook at the top, even in a sans-serif font. This is really important if you're going to be having mathematical discussions. (Of course, "l" (lower-case L) is also indistinguishable here. But letters are either clear from context or, if used as variable names, a choice. So two indistinguishable letters is no big deal; a numeral and a letter is a PROBLEM.)

Is there a way to switch quickly between markdown and regular editing mode, without having to go into user settings? (I.e., switch while editing an article.)

What's up with images?
I stumbled on advanced image features. I don't mean badly discoverable, but really clearly a UI bug. The features let me resize them and choose between left- and right-justification (and text flowing around them?) and it's a pity that they're not widely available. Specifically, I made this comment [LW(p) · GW(p)]. First I switched my account to markdown (is there a way to switch a single comment?). I made the comment with the image. I switched my account to wysiwyg. I edited the comment and accepted the option to switch the comment to wysiwyg. At this point I had the resizing ability, but only for the old markdown image and not for new images I added in wysiwyg, either that comment or a comment that started as wysiwyg (the test comment below).

I replicated this procedure with this comment. It started as markdown and I can resize this image:

but not this one:

![Image text](ImageLink <Closing Parenthesis>

How do I do things like tables using the WYSIWYG interface? There doesn't seem to be any way to insert markdown in that interface. And once you've already been using WYSIWYG on an article, you can't really switch to markdown -- I tried, and it was a complete mess.

Is there a way to make drafts available to specific people, for review?

Am I able to make intra-article hyperlinks to allow my readers to jump to footnotes / other parts of the article?

Message us in the intercom (bottom right corner of your screen)

What intercom???

↑ comment by Ben Pace (Benito) · 2023-03-19T20:26:39.339Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

The vast majority of users see a little circle widget in the bottom right. For instance I can see it now as I look at your comment.

Sometimes users have added things to their browsers that remove it, and you can also remove it in your account settings.

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↑ comment by Diabloto96 · 2023-03-19T21:01:59.643Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

ah yes I see, thank you, it was Brave's fault, time to finally do my switch to Firefox

Does this hide the text? (Sorry just testing things out rn)

How do you do a section separator in 2021?

I followed Google to this post via Googling: "how to include images in lesswrong posts"

Based on the advice, I tried to upload my photo to Google Drive and share it, but it looks like Google Drive doesn't support this kind of URL-embeddable sharing anymore, if I understand correctly. Next time I will try Dropbox, but if you could update this post to reflect Google Drive no longer supporting this (if you can confirm this is true), I think that would be helpful to others. Including a link on how to upload then share a link to an image would also save future people time who use the same Google query to find this post.

How can we add alt-text, so that our articles with images are accessible to visually-impaired readers?

What about captions?