I hate to be negative, but wait until you try to write LaTeX equations in your markdown documents. Personally I find it annoying the way the syntax highlighting gets confused with _ for subscripts.
I wrote to support and the response was basically, LaTeX equations are not part of the formal markdown spec. True, but many people rely on them in their documents. Github, Pandoc, etc... I think the accepted standard is that anything between dollar signs is considered an equation as long as there are no spaces after the left dollar sign and no spaces before the right dollar sign and no digits after the left dollar sign. I think you are on your own for anything more complex than the basic syntax included. I wish the syntax that is included in BBEdit was open via Github so users can help extend and the BBedit people could approve or not the pull requests. On Friday, September 7, 2018 at 9:12:59 AM UTC-4, zverhope wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've spent the last little while looking for a new text editor and have > most recently been familiarizing myself with BBEdit. It's a great piece of > software that's so much faster on my Mac than, say, Atom, and I'd love to > stick with it. The one thing I can't seem to figure out, however, is how to > best extend the Markdown support. Well, I suppose I have figured out some > of it: I have scripts, clippings, etc. that allow me to effectively produce > the syntax and export documents via Pandoc, but what I can't seem to do is > extend the highlighting to recognize the syntax for anything beyond the > basic built-in Markdown (headings, italics, links, etc.). As an academic, > things like syntax highlighting for Pandoc citations, footnotes, preferably > Critic Markup (although less necessary), as well as a few other things, are > quite important, but I can't seem to figure out how to accomplish these > kinds of extensions. And I've Googled to no avail. Does anyone know whether > they have been or are possible in BBEdit? > > Thanks so much to you all for your help! > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
