#12

I also support this notion

#13

To expand upon @maartin 's list, here is a list of many of the common implementations to have extended Markdown to include Definition Lists, with a link to their docs

System Support link to documentation
Pandoc YES Pandoc - Pandoc User’s Guide
Wordpress YES Markdown Quick Reference Cheat Sheet – Support — WordPress.com
Python-Markdown YES Definition Lists — Python-Markdown 3.3.4 documentation
php Markdown Extra YES PHP Markdown Extra
MultiMarkdown YES Definition Lists
SGML Markdown YES Markdown Definition List Examples
Maruku YES
kramdown YES
Markdown-it YES GitHub - markdown-it/markdown-it-deflist: Definition list (<dl>) tag plugin for markdown-it markdown parser
Gitlab On roadmap GitLab Content Editor | Strategy (&5401) · Epics · GitLab.org · GitLab
CommonMark No Description List - Extensions - CommonMark Discussion
Github No

Even though W3C decided to change their name to Term-Description Groups in HTML5, Definition Lists are a commonly used extension. The discussion on CommonMark above has been looking at implementing this since 2014, and they are only holding back in case some implementations find the ‘back-tracking’ hard to implement. GitLab are looking at it already, and once CommonMark adopts it the people like Github who follow CommonMark will do the same, so it’s only a matter of time.

It would be great to add Obsidian to the list of software that supports it - is the feature already available in any of the parsing libraries Obsidian uses?

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#14

+1

I would find definitions useful too.

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#15

Also here for this! +1

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#16

Even though this feature request is a year old already, I still hope it will be implemented at some point too!

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#17

It’s important for typing experience.

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#18

+1

This is needed for FAQs, all kinds of technical documentation, etc. At least 10% of all documents I write will have a need for it, sooner or later.

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#19

I use definition lists a lot and it would be really nice to see them supported here. Thanks!

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#20

Adding my vote for this too!

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#21

+1 - I’d also love to see this

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#22

+1 for me! It will be also pretty useful for “indentation writing”, which not exist in Obsidian.
(I need to use some latex to create it…)

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#23

+1 also, this could be used as an user vocabulary list. if it used in documents it can popup and say what it was

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#24

+1, this would be incredibly useful for taking notes in classes

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#25

+1 This seems fundamental

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#26

I also support this feature!

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#27

Adding my vote to this feature request

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#28

any news with lists?

#29

This seems incredibly useful. Would love to have this. Created an account just to post this.
Thanks obsidian, best app!

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#30

would also love this, since I use Obsidian primarily for language learning.

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#31

+1 as well, would love to use this to have a neat list of well-formatted definitions!

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