What kind of and to what extent is formatting possible on Launchpad posts such as questions and bug reports?
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Launchpad does not support markup in user entered content at this time. URL and bug numbers are linked by the formatter that preserves blank lines.
Please support this bug for a Launchpad wiki.
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@dan3 Those aren't markups: although they cause linkification, they appear as written in the text that is displayed. Aug 20, 2014 at 14:47
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1Unfortunately, the link points to a different problem than the quoted text (wiki support vs formatting/markup support). The two subjects are related but not equal. I would prefer having a more explicit bug (feature request) for supporting... Mar 16, 2016 at 22:55
I've found it quite difficult/impossible to find any infos about that on help.launchpad.net. The little I know I found by trial-and-error. Most important for me (and the only special formatting I use often) is, that writing "bug #xxxxx" (without quotes) in a bug comment automatically creates a link to the respective bug report.
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Glad as I am not to the black sheep of the family (was worried I did not look hard enough), the lack of formatting feature is quite unfortunate. Ask Ubuntu's easy formatting tags on Launchpad would be wonderful.– OxwiviMar 23, 2011 at 17:09
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2Even documenting bug # and lp: would be a start. I know about bug # and I still can't remember it when I need it.– dan3Sep 6, 2013 at 6:45
So the idea that Launchpad does not support formatting is only a myth... sort of. For the truly determined,
http://www.panix.com/~eli/unicode/convert.cgi?text=Is+Jorge+Castro+a+Robot?
Parenthesized ⒤⒮ ⒥⒪⒭⒢⒠ ⒞⒜⒮⒯⒭⒪ ⒜ ⒭⒪⒝⒪⒯?
Circled Ⓘⓢ Ⓙⓞⓡⓖⓔ Ⓒⓐⓢⓣⓡⓞ ⓐ Ⓡⓞⓑⓞⓣ?
Negative Circled 🅘🅢 🅙🅞🅡🅖🅔 🅒🅐🅢🅣🅡🅞 🅐 🅡🅞🅑🅞🅣?
Squared 🄸🅂 🄹🄾🅁🄶🄴 🄲🄰🅂🅃🅁🄾 🄰 🅁🄾🄱🄾🅃?
Negative Squared 🅸🆂 🅹🅾🆁🅶🅴 🅲🅰🆂🆃🆁🅾 🅰 🆁🅾🅱🅾🆃?
Fullwidth Is Jorge Castro a Robot?
Double-struck 𝕀𝕤 𝕁𝕠𝕣𝕘𝕖 ℂ𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕠 𝕒 ℝ𝕠𝕓𝕠𝕥?
Bold 𝐈𝐬 𝐉𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨 𝐚 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭?
Bold italic 𝑰𝒔 𝑱𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐 𝒂 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒐𝒕?
Bold script 𝓘𝓼 𝓙𝓸𝓻𝓰𝓮 𝓒𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓸 𝓪 𝓡𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓽?
Fraktur 𝕴𝖘 𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖌𝖊 𝕮𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖔 𝖆 𝕽𝖔𝖇𝖔𝖙?
Curvy 1 pseudoalphabet ٱร ﻝѻɼﻭﻉ ƈครՇɼѻ ค ɼѻ๒ѻՇ?
Curvy 2 pseudoalphabet ιѕ נσяﻭє ¢αѕтяσ α яσвσт?
Curvy 3 pseudoalphabet เร ן๏гﻮє ςครՇг๏ ค г๏๒๏Շ?
Rock Dots pseudoalphabet Їṡ Jöṛġë Ċäṡẗṛö ä Ṛöḅöẗ?
A-cute pseudoalphabet íś Jőŕǵé Ćáśtŕő á Ŕőbőt?
Small Caps pseudoalphabet ɪꜱ ᴊᴏʀɢᴇ ᴄᴀꜱᴛʀᴏ ᴀ ʀᴏʙᴏᴛ?
Stroked pseudoalphabet Ɨs Ɉøɍǥɇ ȻȺsŧɍø Ⱥ Ɍøƀøŧ?
CJK+Thai pseudoalphabet ノ丂 フo尺g乇 cム丂イ尺o ム 尺o乃oイ?
Faux Cyrillic pseudoalphabet Іѕ ЈоѓБэ Ҁаѕтѓо а Яоъот?
Upside down pseudoalphabet ıs ɾoɹƃǝ ɔɐsʇɹo ɐ ɹoqoʇ¿
Upside down pseudoalphabet (backwards) ¿ʇoqoɹ ɐ oɹʇsɐɔ ǝƃɹoɾ sı
Reversed pseudoalphabet Iꙅ Joᴙgɘ ↃAꙅTᴙo A ᴙodoT⸮
Reversed pseudoalphabet (backwards) ⸮Todoᴙ A oᴙTꙅAↃ ɘgᴙoJ ꙅI
P̶o̶p̶e̶y̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶l̶a̶m̶e̶.̶
http://thejh.net/misc/unicode-underline
P̲o̲p̲e̲y̲ ̲i̲s̲ ̲t̲h̲e̲ ̲b̲e̲e̲s̲ ̲k̲n̲e̲e̲s̲
And you can actually combine these
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8That's not really formatting or markup support. It's just unicode support. However, as Launchpad haven't yet implemented markup support, tricks like this are the only way to do some formatting. Infact, this can be used on pretty much any site having unicode support, for eg; Google+. So, thanks anyway @akiva . This'll come handy! Oct 19, 2014 at 19:03
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Thank you, I used the
Math monospace
option to format Terminal commands and their output :) Oct 19, 2021 at 8:02