Also HN, please add "`" for inline monospace text.

arthurcolle · on Oct 23, 2020

what? why?

backtick code comments/snippets from source text are. really not widely standardized, I don't think it makes sense to encourage them without an accompanying web standard, or at least some kind of standard

snazz · on Oct 23, 2020

I'd say that CommonMark is a pretty widely-utilized standard defining formatting including `inline code` snippets.

arthurcolle · on Oct 23, 2020

Gotcha, didn't realize it was standardized. I feel like I heard about CommonMark when it first was announced and I more or less wrote it off as another markup format, but thanks for the clarification.

My poor little internet points <\3 sorry HN for the unforgivable offense of asking a benign question

boogies · on Oct 23, 2020

CommonMark is some kind of standard, and HN’s current syntax is a subset of it.

Rumudiez · on Oct 23, 2020

HN isn’t a web standard.

arthurcolle · on Oct 23, 2020

The markup that it uses for comments should use one though - and apparently it does! Others have mentioned that it uses a subset of CommonMark as mentioned in your post's sibling comments.

Thanks

ihuman · on Oct 23, 2020

The page with HN's formatting options is a bit hidden (in the FAQ). I'm not surprised people don't know about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc