Is there a way to use Markdown (or similar) in Jira's text fields?

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sprugman picture sprugman · Aug 9, 2011 · Viewed 12.5k times · Source

I'm using Jira for issue tracking and would like to be able to write issue descriptions and comments using Markdown. Is there a way to do that? If not Markdown, wiki syntax, Textile, whatever -- just a way to get some mild html formatting into the page.

FWIW, something with a live preview, like SO would be great, but I'm really talking about on the rendering side. (Obviously, I can type all the Markdown I want :)

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Jay picture Jay · Mar 21, 2012

There is now an unofficially supported plugin to support just this.

Now all we need to do is get Atlassian to support it properly (:

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