# Hide Markdown in ‘Focus Heading’

**URL:** <https://support.doubledogsoftware.com/t/hide-markdown-in-focus-heading/910>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 31, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://support.doubledogsoftware.com/t/hide-markdown-in-focus-heading/910 "2016-03-31T15:20:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![mjknght](https://support.doubledogsoftware.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mjknght](https://support.doubledogsoftware.com/u/mjknght)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://support.doubledogsoftware.com/t/hide-markdown-in-focus-heading/910/1 "2016-03-31T15:20:31Z")

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Hi there,

Is it possible to hide markdown in the ‘Focus Heading’ menu? It would be cleaner if e.g. `*italics*` etc. in headers did not appear there. If that’s not currently possible, consider this a feature request!

Best,

Mark

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**Author:** ![mutahhir](https://support.doubledogsoftware.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@mutahhir](https://support.doubledogsoftware.com/u/mutahhir)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://support.doubledogsoftware.com/t/hide-markdown-in-focus-heading/910/2 "2016-04-05T13:45:36Z")

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Hi Mark,

Thank you for the feature request. I’m afraid I don’t think we’ll be able to implement this. At least not until something major changes. Parsing markdown can be hard, and just zeroing in and removing syntax is non-trivial, at least in my head right now.

I’ll update you if I find a quick way to do this, or if there’s anything I realize I missed.

Regards,  
​Mutahhir

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**Author:** ![mjknght](https://support.doubledogsoftware.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mjknght](https://support.doubledogsoftware.com/u/mjknght)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://support.doubledogsoftware.com/t/hide-markdown-in-focus-heading/910/3 "2016-04-05T14:10:41Z")

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Hi Mutahhir,

Sounds completely reasonable. I confess I haven’t the first idea how things like this work – in my mind, if syntax could be hidden in the editor it could be hidden in the focus window. Thanks for taking the time to respond!

Cheers,

Mark