Markdown Support

Markdown support

You can specify markdown in your message text to modify the presentation.

Supported markdown follows GitHub style formatting. Tables, indents, code blocks etc are supported

Some notes about markdown support:

• Due to the way markdown is rendered and how SwiftUI behaves with selections across views, selecting text only works within a single paragraph/block.
• Inline images to local sources are not supported
• Inline images to URL sources do support markdown ![image](https://path.to/image.png) formatting but not <img src="https://path.to/image.png> at this time.

Newlines

In Markdown due to the definition of how paragraphs and line breaks are handled, a single \n is not sufficient to create a new line. You should end a line with two spaces, and then a \n or you can trigger a new paragraph with a double \n\n

You can also use the <br> tag to denote a newline which will get interpreted as \n ([space][space]\n)

Examples:

dialog --message "Line 1 \nLine2 \nLine 3\n\nParagraph 2"

dialog --message "Line 1<br>Line2<br>Line 3<br><br>Paragraph 2"

dialog --message "Text can include **bold** and _italics_

dialog --message "### Heading 3"

dialog --message " * point 1\n * point 2\n * point 3"

dialog --message "[A link that will open in the default browser](https://some.link.com/)"

dialog --message "\![Inline images are also supported](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Logo-Test.png)"

Caution - When using inline images, you must escape the leading ! as \! otherwise your shell may interpret it as a command.

Suffice to say, things can get a bit crazy so use markdown with caution