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Adds a "Message formatting" article to the API documentation. To start, the article is a changelog of updates to markup features for messages, with the idea being that it can be expanded to further describe and document Zulip's markup features in future iterations.
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Message formatting
Zulip supports an extended version of Markdown for messages, as well as some HTML level special behavior. The Zulip help center article on message formatting is the primary documentation for Zulip's markup features. This article is currently a changelog for updates to these features.
The render a message endpoint can be used to get the current HTML version of any Markdown syntax for message content.
Code blocks
Changes: As of Zulip 4.0 (feature level 33), code blocks
can have a data-code-language attribute attached to the outer HTML
div element, which records the programming language that was selected
for syntax highlighting. This field is used in the
playgrounds feature for code blocks.
Global times
Changes: In Zulip 3.0 (feature level 8), added global time mentions to supported Markdown message formatting features.
Spoilers
Changes: In Zulip 3.0 (feature level 15), added spoilers to supported Markdown message formatting features.
Removed features
Changes: In Zulip 4.0 (feature level 24), the rarely used !avatar()
and !gravatar() markup syntax, which was never documented and had an
inconsistent syntax, were removed.