Markdown tags ** and __ are very often neglected

[Silvan87]

It would be very useful if markdown tag with bold (**) or italic (__) changed color text. It doesn't work while other text editors do it.

[elextr]

Seems whoever made the mappings for markdown mapped lots of syntax elements to the same style in the code instead of mapping each to a different style and left it up to the configuration files to do the mapping.

Pull requests fixing it are welcome.

[codebrainz]

You can change it in your colour scheme .conf file. "strong" is mapped to "string_3" and "emphasis" is mapped to "string_4".

[Silvan87]

So, markdown tags ** and __ do work, but if you have to change colorscheme, this is uncomfortable. Maybe it's better other default choice for markdown colors.

[codebrainz]

I agree, if someone were to create a pull request against Geany and Geany-Themes to improve it, it would be welcome.

[b4n]

The thing is that we don't yet have style that have the semantic of most markup languages, so there isn't something very sensible to map them to. Ideally I guess we'd have additional styles specific for that. I think we had a discussion started about that, but I can't seem to find it just now.
But yeah I guess it makes sense to have those styles, the only problem I know is that it'll break every theme that don't define those new names styles.

[elextr]

@b4n, it the new names are defined in filetypes.common won't that be used if the name isn't defined in the colour scheme? Sure it may be ugly, especially for a dark colour scheme, but that will make it obvious that the colour scheme needs updating :)

[codebrainz]

There was geany/geany-themes#2, but I think it was also discussed somewhere else.

[b4n]

Since #1837 strong and emphasis styles have respectively the bold or italic property set on them, regardless of the colorscheme. Is that sufficient to close this issue, or some extra styles are indeed required?

[ralf3u]

@codebrainz Excuse me, I have a question to your comment #1497 (comment): How do I make it, that for example **ha ha** is not shown bold in the editor? Thank you in advance for an answer.