Kate has great variety of syntax highlights and they work great, but I love using Markdown and I don't like using kate that much with M↓ because it doesn't highlight some of the basic things such as italic or bold words. I think it would be great to see bold and italics on Kate
Could you give more details about the problem? Markdown syntax highlighting does highlight bold and italics (for example, **bold**, __bold__, *italic*). Perhaps the problem is because the font you are using in Kate doesn't have bold and italic variants. * Check if bold and italics are highlighted in other syntax highlighters. For example, in C++ or JavaScript keywords like "if", "while" are highlighted in bold. * Indicate the version of KDE Frameworks you are using (In Kate, go to: Help -> About Kate -> Libraries) * Indicates the type of font used (go to: Settings -> Configure Kate... -> Apperance -> Fonts). Here is an example file of the Markdown highlighting: https://kate-editor.org/syntax/data/html/test.markdown.html
Created attachment 152609 [details] Bold highlight not working at start of line Kate Version 19.12.3 KDE Frameworks 5.68.0 Qt 5.12.8 (built against 5.12.8) The xcb windowing system Looks like the *bold* highlighting for Jira syntax does not work for words right at the start of line. Could it be confused with a bullet point by the hilight engine? As a comparison, _italic_ works fine.
Git commit c4c3cb9842404aec1dd645cf08107dd0310ce00a by Christoph Cullmann, on behalf of Jonathan Poelen. Committed on 05/11/2022 at 13:50. Pushed by cullmann into branch 'master'. Jira: fix Bold and Stroked Out highlight at start of line M +2 -2 autotests/html/highlight.jira.dark.html M +2 -2 autotests/html/highlight.jira.html M +2 -2 autotests/reference/highlight.jira.ref M +1 -1 data/syntax/jira.xml https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/syntax-highlighting/commit/c4c3cb9842404aec1dd645cf08107dd0310ce00a