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On SE, as we write our answers the formatted text appears below it; a what-you-see-is-what-you-get image.

That helps me, at least, tell if I have unclosed Bold or Italics, if my links are working, if my line spacing is correct, etc.

I just noticed, writing an answer to a question, that we don't have that here.

Is it a planned feature?

(I also notice, when writing a META question, that it still requires a tag to be specified; even though that might not be apropos. I chose "editing" but I wouldn't want this question to appear when somebody is looking for hints on self-editing their novel.)

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Galastel‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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This is particularly important since at the moment we don't have buttons that do the formatting for us: we have to do the markup manually.

Galastel‭ wrote over 4 years ago · edited over 4 years ago
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Amadeus, re: Meta tags, that's because the question is in the wrong place. See my relevant question on Meta: Confusing Ask! button on Meta (Your question being on the main page rather than on Meta is how I found the problem - tried to figure out what made that happen. Also flagged for migration to Meta, but that might take a while.)

ArtOfCode‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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I'll get this moved to meta - it's not a function in the UI yet, but it's not a difficult thing to do behind the scenes.

celtschk‭ wrote over 4 years ago
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I think a preview button (like on Wikipedia) would be an solution that could be implemented much quicker than an SE-like live preview.

ArtOfCode‭ wrote over 4 years ago · edited over 4 years ago
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Exactly the same effort to implement actually, @celtschk, just depends whether you trigger a preview on click (button) or on text change (live) - it's a six-character difference between the two options.