On March 29, 2025 4:39:03 PM EDT, H <age...@meddatainc.com> wrote:
>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.
Just want to see if there is any news on the release of geany 2.1?
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