Hey there,
H via Users wrote:
>Will the markdown preview plugin in geany 2.1 offer broader support
>of the markdown syntax?
I can't answer that, but I've got work-arounds listed below.
>I am particularly interested in support for tables and footnotes.
I do most of my Markdown and reStructuredText editing in Geany, but
have added these three commands into the "Markdown commands" section
of the "Set Build Commands" entry in the "Build" menu of Geany to
help out, especially with viewing the rendered files:
okular "%f"
ebook-viewer "%f"
formiko "%f" > /dev/null 2>&1
My Geany toolbar contains these icons and I can't remember if I
manually added them or if they showed up automatically when I put
those three commands into the "Build" menu:
* The "Compile the current file" icon opens the current file
in Okular, which is a universal document viewer.
* The "Build the current file" icon opens the current file in
E-book viewer, which is a document viewer installed by the
Calibre package.
* The "Run or view the current file" opens the current file
in Formiko, which is a side-by-side reStructuredText and
Markdown editor/viewer.
In the event that you don't get those three icons automatically,
there's menu access to all of these things, but I just prefer a click
quick of a button over that. Also, I'd be happy to poke around
in-depth to find out exactly what I did to add them and share that
here.
As to your particular interest, neither Okular nor Formiko render
Markdown footnotes or tables correctly, but E-book viewer does.
And just as a side note, in case you decide to try out all the things
I use, when I use the Geany toolbar icon to open the current Geany
file in Formiko, I can do some editing in the Formiko window if I
like. Then, when I close Formiko and save the changes, Geany
recognizes that the file changed and pops up a notification offering
to let me click to refresh the file.
Also, to see your Markdown or reStructuredText files rendered in a
different way, you can create a GitHub account, if you don't already
have one, and then create a private Markdown Gist and paste any
Markdown contents you're editing in Geany into it and preview the
Gist. I find that especially useful when I've got a lot of inline
code and/or blocks of code, since GitHub colors the background on
them to make it easy to quickly spot them in huge documents.
--
Little Girl
There is no spoon.
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