On March 27, 2025 12:08:41 AM EDT, Lex Trotman via Users
<users@lists.geany.org> wrote:
>Note that plugins are maintained individually. In the case for
>markdown
>there has not been much communication by its creator and only changes
>being
>ones OS ready people provide to keep it working. So you would most
>likely
>need to provide changes to the plugin if you could as there has been no
>touch of the markdown for near 11 months.
>
>
>On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 at 13:42, H via Users <users@lists.geany.org>
>wrote:
>
>> On March 26, 2025 1:15:37 PM GMT-04:00, Little Girl via Users <
>> users@lists.geany.org> wrote:
>> >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.
>>
>> Thank you very much for your workarounds. Would be great though, if
>this
>> coming version of the markdown preview plugin would support expanded
>> markdown syntax in itself.
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Noted. It would be great if geany 2.1 were to be released soon. I could then
start taking a look at the markdown preview plugin code to see if I could
improve it.
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