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Re: Markdown previewer



On 17-03-2021 20:40, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Weaver wrote:
>> >> Can you please advise a good GUI Markdown previewer?
>> >>
>> >> Many editors (vim, mousepad) can highlight Markdown syntax, but it's a
>> >> different matter. I'd like the previewer to display rendered Markdown
>> >> nicely with fonts, hyperlinks, numbered lists etc.
>> >>
>> > VSCodium (https://vscodium.com) can do a good job of this, and is a
>> > popular all-purpose IDE. Simply open the Markdown file and press Ctrl+K,
>> > V to get a live side-by-side preview.
>> >
>> > If you want something command-line based, then you need to convert the
>> > Markdown code to code that some other renderer will understand. Pandoc
>> > (https://packages.debian.org/buster/pandoc) can do that for you with a
>> > simple "pandoc -o README.html README.md" or "pandoc -o README.pdf
>> > README.md" etc.
>>
>> Or, at the other end of the spectrum, you might like to try out Typora.
>> Cheers!
> 
> Looks nice, thank you. I did not quite understand however, is it a
> commercial software, non-free?

Just did a quick search, and it no longer appears to be in the
repositories.
Ghostwriter might be another alternative.
That's available.
Cheers!

Harry

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 because of those who look on without doing anything'.
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