
You can add Markdown formatting elements to a plaintext file using a text editor application. The screenshot below shows a Markdown file displayed in the Visual Studio Code text editor.

It may take a while to get used to seeing Markdown syntax in your text, especially if you’re accustomed to WYSIWYG applications. Or to make a phrase bold, you add two asterisks before and after it (e.g., **this text is bold**). When you create a Markdown-formatted file, you add Markdown syntax to the text to indicate which words and phrases should look different.įor example, to denote a heading, you add a number sign before it (e.g., # Heading One). In an application like Microsoft Word, you click buttons to format words and phrases, and the changes are visible immediately. Using Markdown is different than using a WYSIWYG editor.

Created by John Gruber in 2004, Markdown is now one of the world’s most popular markup languages. It also is unlikely to actually help much in this case.Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents. It is technically possible to separately compile the formatter implementation, but it’s undefined behavior, and it will break in the future if you do that. We could avoid pulling in locale in a future version by separately compiling the internal “backend” format functions, but we didn’t want to do that in the initial release because it can present migration challenges. On the STL side the largest headers format uses are string and locale. It may be possible to reduce the amount of code pulled in, but ultimately any TU that needs to format glm vectors probably wants to use them as well. glm may _also_ pull in quite a lot of code. That _does_ pull in quite a bit of code, but the specialization itself shouldn’t be much worse than just using format by itself.

(sorry about the code formatting, the blog platform eats templates!)ĭoes just writing that custom formatter slow down compile times more than pulling in format and glm and then formatting with std::format directly (as in the formatter’s format method). Try out format in your own code, and file any bugs on our out GitHub issue tracker.
