Serialization of Rich-Text Format, not natively representable in Markdown

[vadimkantorov]

E.g. what if I'd like to center heading text and add some text-color.

How is it going to be serialized to Markdown by Sveltia? With HTML extensions? With shortcode extensions?

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Lexical's Markdown plugin probably does not support natively exporting such nodes to Markdown. Maybe plugging in remark as exported should be implemented

[kyoshino]

Markdown can include HTML. See the original spec. You can just write

<h2 style="text-align: center; color: red;">Hello World<h2>

instead of

## Hello World

However, editing experience may not be great because you may need to switch to raw mode to edit attributes/styles. For that reason, you can create custom editor components.

There will be no Remark support as Lexical is not part of the Remark ecosystem.

HTML export is planned as said in #571 (comment).

[kyoshino]

The answer is no. We don’t plan to add support for Lexical Remark or any other Lexical-specific feature.

[vadimkantorov]

So the scope is mainly dev-focused CMS, right? Without any RTF besides vanilla Markdown?

Is Sveltia currently relying on lexical/markdown package for markdown de/serialization?

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The remark/rehype-based lexical package wouldn't be any more Lexical-specific than existing Lexical/markdown package. And maintainer of Lexical said that they consider it the proper solution, just that they did not have resources to do a remark-based package properly. But there exist an early working prototype I linked above, based on which I'll build my own replacing package. The existing regexp-based parser has a lot of quirks, hence dozens of markdown-related issues in the Lexical repo. Because without RTF, one cannot get reliable editing of markdown exported from WordPress/other existing CMS.

[kyoshino]

No is no. If you don’t like it, find another CMS.

[vadimkantorov]

I'm simply trying to understand what the intended project scope is, and its design decisions on RTF support

Is Sveltia currently relying on lexical/markdown package for markdown de/serialization? I'm asking this because if this is the case, my endeavor of replacing lexical/markdown should automatically bring RTF capabilities to Sveltia and solve my usecase. I'm of course not trying to demand to upstream or support this - it is your project and you develop it as you see fit, I recognize and accept this of course.

[vadimkantorov]

Is Sveltia currently relying on lexical/markdown package for markdown de/serialization?

Yes, it appears so: https://github.com/sveltia/sveltia-ui/blob/9b6e28a0fb0f4620d2776ef59fb9dbcbdd392386/package.json#L35

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Does Sveltia reimplements its own editing UI / editor toolbar? or does it inherit from example RTF toolbar provided in React-based Lexical Playground (which implements editing text coloring or text alignment/justification), correct?

Thank you!

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If Sveltia reuses existing UI components, then replacing lexical/markdown with a more powerful package would automagically bring more rich text editing to Sveltia