OTE's description field is documented as "Plain text or Markdown," but both exporters treated it as plain text only:
export-rss escaped it and turned newlines into <br/> — Markdown syntax (**bold**, [link](url), lists) leaked through literally instead of rendering, even though RSS 2.0's <description> commonly holds entity-encoded HTML that readers render.export-ics put it straight into DESCRIPTION, which per RFC 5545 is TEXT-only and can't hold markup at all.
Fix:
export-rss: description is now rendered to HTML with marked before being embedded in the item body (still entity-encoded once for the XML document, same as before).export-ics: added X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html — the de facto (non-standard but widely implemented — Outlook 2007+, Thunderbird/Lightning) rich-text extension — carrying the Markdown rendered to HTML, built from the same parts as DESCRIPTION (online link, moved-online note, cfp/eligibility/offers) since Outlook ignores DESCRIPTION entirely once X-ALT-DESC is present. Plain-text DESCRIPTION stays unchanged, for Google Calendar and any other client that ignores X-ALT-DESC.- Both: raw inline/block HTML found inside the Markdown source is escaped rather than passed through live.
export-rss's reverse-parser (parse.ts, used by apps/preview) was reading only <p> elements from the item body; fixed to read every top-level block, since Markdown can now produce <ul>/<h2>/etc. too.
Scoped to event.description only — feed/channel-level description is plain "Short description of the feed" in the schema, not documented as Markdown, so it's untouched.
OTE's
descriptionfield is documented as "Plain text or Markdown," but both exporters treated it as plain text only:export-rssescaped it and turned newlines into<br/>— Markdown syntax (**bold**,[link](url), lists) leaked through literally instead of rendering, even though RSS 2.0's<description>commonly holds entity-encoded HTML that readers render.export-icsput it straight intoDESCRIPTION, which per RFC 5545 is TEXT-only and can't hold markup at all.Fix:
export-rss:descriptionis now rendered to HTML withmarkedbefore being embedded in the item body (still entity-encoded once for the XML document, same as before).export-ics: addedX-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html— the de facto (non-standard but widely implemented — Outlook 2007+, Thunderbird/Lightning) rich-text extension — carrying the Markdown rendered to HTML, built from the same parts asDESCRIPTION(online link, moved-online note, cfp/eligibility/offers) since Outlook ignoresDESCRIPTIONentirely onceX-ALT-DESCis present. Plain-textDESCRIPTIONstays unchanged, for Google Calendar and any other client that ignoresX-ALT-DESC.export-rss's reverse-parser (parse.ts, used byapps/preview) was reading only<p>elements from the item body; fixed to read every top-level block, since Markdown can now produce<ul>/<h2>/etc. too.Scoped to
event.descriptiononly — feed/channel-leveldescriptionis plain "Short description of the feed" in the schema, not documented as Markdown, so it's untouched.