Alternative to HTML comments

[VoidAlone]

Just want to start by saying this applications kicks ass. Seriously it's so cool. It blows similar applications out of the water in terms of flexibility and features.

That being said, doing html comments for formatting/commands honestly kind of sucks especially in the context of using markdown which is generally incredibly simplistic. html comments are so verbose and when making a slide, you end up with a lot of them.

Could there be a way to choose a different format for specifying presenterm commands that would be compatible with markdown but simplify the process? Again, no shade, this app rocks, this one aspect just feels tiring to have to type out especially when doing a lot of slide formatting.

[mfontanini]

lol thanks! I get it, typing HTML comments is a bit tedious. It's a nice format for me as an implementor because I need very little logic to parse it out, but it is true they're a bit annoying for presentation writers.

I would be open to supporting an alternative way of defining commands. Is there anything you have in mind? The main restriction is it needs to fit in well with markdown: the markdown in a presentation is parsed and then some extra parsing can be done on top of that.

[VoidAlone]

Just one idea could be to use "%%" as in %% command %%. It's still enclosing so it's slightly verbose, but it's only 1 character that gets repeated, and I think that could fairly easy to parse and it would actually work really well with Obsidian I think since those are used as comments in the app. I don't think that % is reserved in markdown or really used in anything else, so this could potentially even free up html support.

I'm not sure if there's a way we could get away from an enclosing block but the double percent could work nicely?

Then again, I could just edit my slides in a code editor and have it autocomplete my html comments for me which would at least clear up some of the tedium there.