Markdown Issue
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When I use the iPhone Shortcuts app to create a Day One journal entry, I’m trying to write the entry text in Markdown, but some Markdown syntax doesn’t work.
For example, headings work correctly when I use <strong data-start=”207″ data-end=”217″>1 to 6 <code data-start=”218″ data-end=”221″># characters (<code data-start=”234″ data-end=”237″># through <code data-start=”246″ data-end=”254″>######)—they are converted properly. However, when I use <strong data-start=”305″ data-end=”310″>7 <code data-start=”311″ data-end=”314″># characters (<code data-start=”327″ data-end=”336″>#######), it does <strong data-start=”347″ data-end=”354″>not get converted into a heading.
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When I use the iPhone Shortcuts app to create a Day One journal entry, I’m trying to write the entry text in Markdown, but some Markdown syntax doesn’t work.
For example, headings work correctly when I use 1 to 6 # characters (# through ######)—they are converted properly. However, when I use 7 # characters (#######), it does not get converted into a heading.
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I’ve never seen built-in heading levels above six (and I’ve been using Day One since 2011). Here’s a help topic covering Markdown, in the Day One online help articles.
Markdown Guide
In the section on headings, it shows Markdown for only levels 1-6 (i.e., no using seven octothorp characters).
Here’s my go-to guide for Markdown syntax, in Day One or any other app that supports Markdown.
https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/
Markdown is a standardized, universal set of formatting sets that is not specific to any one app. In this guide, it also shows heading levels from 1 to 6, only. No levels greater than 6.
So I would say that this issue is not specific to Day One, but to the Markdown syntax itself.
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