Learn how to format well, based on other's posts

(1) By ddevienne on 2020-03-13 13:42:30 [link]

I'm not used to Markdown. Sure there's a help page  
(by clicking the **Markup style** link, figured that much),  
but what I really want is learn from others, and see the plain  
Markdown text from posts, and I can't seem to be able to.

What am I missing? --DD

(2) By Huỳnh Trần Khanh (huynhtrankhanh1) on 2020-03-13 13:49:00 in reply to 1 [link]

The notification emails you receive are _raw, unprocessed Markdown._ I can't figure out how to view the original Markdown source on the web interface, but reading the emails should be a reasonable workaround.

(3) By Richard Hipp (drh) on 2020-03-13 13:50:50 in reply to 2

Admins have a link that let's us see the raw Markdown.  But you are correct,
ordinary users do not.  I think that should probably be fixed.  If you try
again in a few days, you may find that it has been.

(4) By Warren Young (wyoung) on 2020-03-13 14:04:09 in reply to 3 [link]

> If you try again in a few days, you may find that it has been.

In the meantime, there's a manual hack around the lack of this feature: copy the link in the post's header (the one that when loaded gives it a blue background) and replace the `forumpost` bit with `artifact`.

The top post of this thread is thus:

        https://sqlite.org/forum/artifact/d12952bc56

If you visit that URL, you'll see the raw text for that post at the end of the artifact following [the `W` card](https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fileformat.wiki#wikichng).