Visual glitch in WYSIWYG mode when viewing Markdown annotations with block quotes

Hello,

I’ve been having this visual glitch for a while but never got around to filing a report here. Basically, when viewing Markdown annotations that include block quotes:

GIF of screen recording

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My specs:

  • Latest stable builds of macOS and DEVONthink (15.1 and 3.9.8 respectively) running on Intel-chip MacBook Pro, though I’ve been experiencing this since 3.9.7 at the latest
  • The example PDF in the GIF is from here, though I’ve seen it happen in basically every PDF I’ve annotated so it should be easily reproducible in just about any PDF+Text file

Some observations:

  • Turning off WYSIWYG mode always gets rid of all such glitches for me.
  • This doesn’t just happen in the Annotations & Reminders pane. When I open the Markdowon annotation in a separate window, similar glitches happen as well. In rare cases, the glitches can get so bad that I can’t scroll past the first lines, forcing me to disable WYSIWYG.
  • I think I’ve only seen this happen in Annotation files (rather than, say, a Markdown file I created and wrote from scratch), so my best guess is maybe the very long and messy URLs inserted by “Insert Quote” is causing DT the confusion?

Looking forward to this getting fixed. Thank you!

How’s that PDF related to the markdown in the title of the post?

How do you turn WYSIWYG for PDF on or off?

Did you try adding newlines between the block quotes? Or to use only one blockquote with forced linebreaks (two spaces at the end of a line)?

No, this specific PDF doesn’t have anything to do with the issue, I just picked an arbitrary example file in order to make the GIF demonstration. As I said elsewhere in the post, I expect this issue to be easily reproducible in just about any PDF+Text file.

WYSIWYG doesn’t apply to PDF though. I was talking about this:

Yes. Not in the GIF of course, which was supposed to be a simple demonstration.

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may I ask how you create such text, that is only shown when clicking on the symbol?

Of course! It’s the “Hide Details” feature here:

I have reproduced the behavior. On Ventura, it’s only a cosmetic effect in the Annotations field. The annotation file is unaffected.

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Does resizing the window or inspector fix this? At least over here it does, might be a temporary display glitch.

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Hi Christian, I actually never thought of that. I tried resizing the window and inspector just now, but unfortunately neither seem to have any effect on the issue. I’ll keep this in mind as a potential workaround though, thanks!

One issue is actually that the Markdown quote is not formatted as intended, the back link should not be part of the quote. The next maintenance release will fix this.

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I see! Thank you for the good news, and I’m looking forward to the release.