Feature request: option to show raw text instead of Markdown

Most of the time I need to view the raw text rather than markdown rendered. Currently I wrap the generated text with <pre> and </pre> to avoid symbols being interpreted as style markers, but because the text is generated by a RNN, it sometimes contains </pre> itself to break the whole thing.

I believe a checkbox on Tensorboard that turns off Markdown would be really helpful to many people, and it shouldn’t be much work, since displaying text without formatting seems a much easier job than markdown rendering.

[vengodelsur]

(If you came here when searching for a workaround just like me, you should know that seamingly you can add four spaces at the beginning of each line so that text is treated as a code block and inside it formatting isn’t used.)

[nfelt]

@silky Ok, can you open a new feature request for some way to support this? Maybe it doesn’t need a new plugin but IMO there are still safer ways to do this than opening up arbitrary HTML. E.g. we might be able to add a markdown extension that lets you do varying levels of highlighting for this purpose.