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Started to do some initial development on this item, parsing out key features of markdown code and stripping the formatting and parsing out the features.

Note this useful reference:
https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet

Remaining goals:

• Replaces image markdown code with the [alt-text] followed by the 'IMAGE_COL' icon label, which acts as an emboss=False url_open operator to the original image location (may be hard to determine if non-absolute links are used)
• Remove styling options like for bold and italics, since they can't show up in blender
• Implement more intelligent auto-line wrapping; right now you have to hard set the width to e.g. 100 chars or something like that, it may be possible to interpret based from the draw self module
• Implement in-line link creation, where the [link text](link.destination.com) is replaced by link text # where # would be the CONSTRAINTS icon in a label, and the whole thing would be a non-embossed url_opener operator to the original link.
• If feeling super advanced, could hack in bold/italics/underlines by using "..." label characters with very short .scale_y heights so they appear just under the main text. This could also work for placing a line underneath url's.
• Implement drawing option to display either as a self contained object (typically drawn into a box UI element but not necessarily), or to implement natively inside a scrolling UI list (which is a bit of a strange adaptation but would work).

And note the WIP progress so far, which essentially just parses out headers (all treated the same and only if using # method) and bullet points (up to two-deep). I've started to design the structure to interpret and extract (remove, due to lack of text styling in blender) features like bold, italics and images.

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Could the user have the option to view older release logs?

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Yeah, assuming they are available it would be fairly straightforward to grab once this UI piece is implemented.

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