Content Suggestion Add Markdown Support to Documents

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Grayman

Grayman

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What does this suggestion change/add/remove:
Add Markdown support to the clipboard / document system. This would allow users to use basic formatting such as headings, bold, italics, tables, lists, block quotes, horizontal rules, and code blocks where supported.
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Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?:
Not that I'm aware of. This suggestion isn't about changing the document system itself, but expanding its formatting capabilities to give players more control over how documents are presented.

EDIT: I have seen there was a suggestion to add something similar to text chat, but haven't seen anything regarding documents.
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Possible Positives of the suggestion (At least 2):
  • Allows for significantly cleaner and more professional-looking documents.
  • Makes long documents much easier to read through proper headings, spacing, and formatting.
  • Gives departments more editorial freedom when creating handbooks, policies, reports, SOPs, and forms.
  • Reduces the need for workarounds to achieve simple formatting.
  • Markdown is widely used, easy to learn, and much faster than relying on limited formatting tools.
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Possible Negatives of the suggestion:
  • Some users may initially be unfamiliar with Markdown syntax.
  • Certain Markdown features may need to be restricted for security or formatting consistency.
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Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:
Documents are used extensively across the Server for handbooks, policies, tribunal submissions, personnel files, research logs, psych-evals, departmental documentation and much more.

Giving users Markdown support would greatly improve readability and presentation without fundamentally changing how the document system works. Since Markdown is lightweight, intuitive, and already an industry standard, it would provide a substantial quality-of-life improvement for anyone who regularly creates or edits Foundation documents.
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