Implementing Underline Functionality

[d-e-v-esh]

Feature Request 🛍️

Markdown natively doesn't support underline so we need to figure out a different way to include and implement this feature.

This issue is the successor of accordproject/web-components#28

[jeromesimeon]

Feature Request 🛍️

Markdown natively doesn't support underline so we need to figure out a different way to include and implement this feature.

This issue is the successor of accordproject/web-components#28

Or maybe not implement it?

[dselman]

A good one to get legal input on at a WG call perhaps?

[jeromesimeon]

A good one to get legal input on at a WG call perhaps?

yes I like that! I'll schedule.

[jeromesimeon]

Maybe useful to not schedule it in isolation, but in a session where people express preferences so we can prioritise. Along the lines of:

Which of those commonmark extensions are the most important for contracts / legal agreements:

• tables
• strikethrough
• underline
• references
• footnotes
• ...name your favourite...

etc. ?

[jeromesimeon]

Notes on underline:

• From a pure markdown perspective people often use <u>this will be underlined</u> directly within the markdown. This most often generate the corresponding <u></u> tags in HTML.
• The use of the <u>...</u> tag in HTML comes with a warning / sometimes discourage as it can confuse users which often take those for links (most commonly underlined in your browser)
• I've seen markdown proposals looking like this:

  ++this will be underlined++
  

• It wouldn't be hard to create a markdown-it plugin for that syntax
• This would require and extension to CiceroMark for the corresponding nodes
• I think this kind of extension would operate on 'inlines' rather than 'blocks' in markdown (similarly to emphasize and bold)

[jolanglinais]

Should this be on the schedule for the next WG call @jeromesimeon?

[TC5022]

@irmerk @jeromesimeon @dselman Do we still need the underline functionality? Shall I look into this issue?