The beta does not support displaying a checkbox in a table cell, currently it just shows up as plaintext -
Was wondering if you plan on supporting this feature?
We can’t support markdown checkboxes inside a table without breaking cmark rules. Eventually, we can figure out an alternate syntax that doesn’t break the rules but this has the downside that will only be supported in Bear/Panda.
I agree. One of the reasons for switching back to Bear is staying with “standard” data formats. I have been in the computer industry for 28 years and though the years, for one reason or other, I have had to move data to a different platform and having it in a more or less proprietary format I have pretty much had to copy/paste each time thus losing much data.
While it sometimes limits features (like above) it will outweigh those benefits. This is often a very overlooked issue that people should be concerned about. I have had to re-learn this lesson more than once because of chasing those shiny features.
My hats off to the Bear group for maintaining a standard like this.
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respect the decision! will figure out a workaround.