# How are people feeling about Discourse?

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**Created:** [November 25, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-people-feeling-about-discourse/926428 "2020-11-25T16:40:49Z")\
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> [@JohnT](#):
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> Needs underlining as a text format option

Underlined text

`[u]Underlined text[/u]`

> [@JohnT](#):
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> there is a bug with the automatic numbering system, making it impossible to count down

&nbsp;10. ⠀  
⠀ 9.  
⠀ 8.  
⠀ 7.  
⠀ 6.

`&nbsp;10. ⠀ ⠀ 9. ⠀ 8. ⠀ 7. ⠀ 6. `

Ok, that was an ugly workaround and I agree that Discourse should give users a native and more elegant way of doing it. Good bug find, by the way.

> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> I also miss colored text.

Discourse now has MathJax support which can render colors. Refer to these posts:

> [@MathJax has been added in to the SDMB. \[Like TeX/LaTeX\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mathjax-has-been-added-in-to-the-sdmb-like-tex-latex/945190/43):
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> \color{navy}{\text {Okay, this looks like an easier way to do it}} \\ \color{RoyalBlue}{\text {There are a lot of named colors}} \\ \color{purple}{\text {Dozens of them}} \\ \color{ForestGreen}{\text {And if you use the text command, then it handles spaces correctly}} \\ [Here’s a list](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Colors#The_68_standard_colors_known_to_dvips) of colors. And this is the the way to do it: $\color{navy}{\text {Put your text here}}$

> [@I Suppose There Should Be A MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-suppose-there-should-be-a-mmp/946811/150):
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> This is a test: \color{red}{\text{this is a test}} \color{blue}{\text{this is a test}} \color{green}{\text{this is a test}} So, we can encolorate text after all, but it’s a rather messy process. This is the coding, but remove the initial x. x$\color{red}{\text{this is a test}}$ I just created a .doc with the different colors entered for quick copy-and-paste…

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