What kind of text formatting is valid on Launchpad?

Question

What kind of and to what extent is formatting possible on Launchpad posts such as questions and bug reports?

Answer 1

Answered on Launchpad:

Launchpad does not support markup in user entered content at this time. URL and bug numbers are linked by the formatter that preserves blank lines.

Please support this bug for a Launchpad wiki.

Answer 2

I've found it quite difficult/impossible to find any infos about that on help.launchpad.net. The little I know I found by trial-and-error. Most important for me (and the only special formatting I use often) is, that writing "bug #xxxxx" (without quotes) in a bug comment automatically creates a link to the respective bug report.

Answer 3

So the idea that Launchpad does not support formatting is only a myth... sort of. For the truly determined,

http://www.panix.com/~eli/unicode/convert.cgi?text=Is+Jorge+Castro+a+Robot?

   Parenthesized    ⒤⒮ ⒥⒪⒭⒢⒠ ⒞⒜⒮⒯⒭⒪ ⒜ ⒭⒪⒝⒪⒯?
   Circled  Ⓘⓢ Ⓙⓞⓡⓖⓔ Ⓒⓐⓢⓣⓡⓞ ⓐ Ⓡⓞⓑⓞⓣ?
   Negative Circled     ?
   Squared      ?
   Negative Squared     ?
   Fullwidth    Ｉｓ Ｊｏｒｇｅ Ｃａｓｔｒｏ ａ Ｒｏｂｏｔ？
   Double-struck      ℂ  ℝ?
   Bold     ?
   Bold italic      ?
   Bold script      ?
   Fraktur      ?
   Curvy 1 pseudoalphabet   ٱร ﻝѻɼﻭﻉ ƈครՇɼѻ ค ɼѻ๒ѻՇ?
   Curvy 2 pseudoalphabet   ιѕ נσяﻭє ¢αѕтяσ α яσвσт?
   Curvy 3 pseudoalphabet   เร ן๏гﻮє ςครՇг๏ ค г๏๒๏Շ?
   Rock Dots pseudoalphabet Їṡ Jöṛġë Ċäṡẗṛö ä Ṛöḅöẗ?
   A-cute pseudoalphabet    íś Jőŕǵé Ćáśtŕő á Ŕőbőt?
   Small Caps pseudoalphabet    ɪꜱ ᴊᴏʀɢᴇ ᴄᴀꜱᴛʀᴏ ᴀ ʀᴏʙᴏᴛ?
   Stroked pseudoalphabet   Ɨs Ɉøɍǥɇ ȻȺsŧɍø Ⱥ Ɍøƀøŧ?
   CJK+Thai pseudoalphabet  ﾉ丂 ﾌo尺g乇 cﾑ丂ｲ尺o ﾑ 尺o乃oｲ?
   Faux Cyrillic pseudoalphabet Іѕ ЈоѓБэ Ҁаѕтѓо а Яоъот?
   Upside down pseudoalphabet   ıs ɾoɹƃǝ ɔɐsʇɹo ɐ ɹoqoʇ¿
   Upside down pseudoalphabet (backwards)   ¿ʇoqoɹ ɐ oɹʇsɐɔ ǝƃɹoɾ sı
   Reversed pseudoalphabet  Iꙅ Joᴙgɘ ↃAꙅTᴙo A ᴙodoT⸮
   Reversed pseudoalphabet (backwards)  ⸮Todoᴙ A oᴙTꙅAↃ ɘgᴙoJ ꙅI

http://adamvarga.com/strike/

P̶o̶p̶e̶y̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶l̶a̶m̶e̶.̶

http://thejh.net/misc/unicode-underline

P̲o̲p̲e̲y̲ ̲i̲s̲ ̲t̲h̲e̲ ̲b̲e̲e̲s̲ ̲k̲n̲e̲e̲s̲

And you can actually combine these

http://www.panix.com/~eli/unicode/convert.cgi?text=M%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6i%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6c%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6h%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6e%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6a%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6l%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6+%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6H%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6a%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6l%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6l%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6+%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6e%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6a%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6t%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6s%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6+%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6r%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6u%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6b%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6b%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6e%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6r%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6+%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6f%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6o%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6r%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6+%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6s%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6u%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6p%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6p%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6e%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6r%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6+%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6a%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6n%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6d%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6+%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6h%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6a%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6s%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6+%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6c%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6h%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6i%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6c%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6k%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6e%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6n%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6+%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6f%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6o%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6r%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6+%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6t%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6i%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6r%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6e%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6s%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6.%CC%B6%CC%B2%CC%B6

Answer 4

At "Text formatting on Launchpad", which requests what this question asks, I asked:

Does a bug to add Markdown support exist?

A response confirmed it did:

• For comments and bug descriptions:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/2034741

• For PPA descriptions:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/392123

As mentioned in the comments on that first bug report, this is an item in a long backlog of things to implement. Until we are able to pick it up, we accept community contributions. Also, feel free to click on "this bug affects me" button in the bug report.