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commonmark-spec
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How to add a man page to your Ruby project, using kramdown-man and markdown
Edit: this is because GitHub uses cmark-gfm, which is a fork of cmark, which implements the CommonMark variant of markdown. Looks like CommonMark still doesn't support definition lists. :(
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How do you host documentation for your spouse or other users?
BookStack dev here. There's no specific "import" option but you can use the Markdown editor in BookStack and paste in your Markdown content there. The API is essentially just an endpoint to accept the same kind of data, for of course you could automate against the API for batch import. One thing to keep in mind is that BookStack markdown support is fairly tightly scoped to (commonmark + tables + tasklists), although HTML within MD is supported.
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On why Markdown is not a good, or even a half-decent, markup language
>A single canonical reference
https://commonmark.org/
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Get ready for Bear 2 - We have a quick blog post with some important details and ways you can get notified once it's out!
Typically with major new releases of software, when the number left of the dot (e.g. 2.0) increases, it’s shipped as a separate product. Not always, but generally. The Bear folks can speak for themselves but IIRC a lot of the code was refactored / rewritten to support, for example, CommonMark. So, under the hood, it’s literally brand new in some respects.
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Best website to write a rulebook for ttrpgs
I use Obsidian (https://obsidian.md) for a lot of things, including my RPG stuff, and there are options for exporting things as PDFs. It’s great for getting organized and doing research, but I would use other tools for long-form writing and layout. What I like about Obsidian though is that everything is done in Markdown (https://commonmark.org) and I can use Pandoc (https://pandoc.org) to transform the source to whatever I need. The caveat is that Obsidian uses a flavor of Markdown with some non-standard extensions, so a pure Markdown editor like Typora (https://typora.io) might be a better choice depending on your needs.
- What is the most minimal, strictest variant of Markdown?
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How to display an image
yes, this is the "inventor" of markdown and those rules will always work. Hugo uses something called "Commonmark" which is developed on top of the original markdown. But the original rules will always work too.
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Lightweight Markup for Ukrainian Texts?
Reddit and many other sites support Markdown as an easy way to add emphasis, links, headings, etc. Markdown does not contain any keywords, as it is intended to be language-independent. However, Markdown syntax makes heavy use of square brackets [] and other characters that are difficult to type with an Ukrainian keyboard layout, e.g., the backtick `.
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I wish Asciidoc was more popular
Check out commonmark, that is the Markdown standard supported by numerous converters including pandoc.
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I wrote a markdown to html converter
And if this is an exercise into that you can use a Markdown spec like CommonMark which is the spec Reddit and a variety of other sites use.
keenwrite-themes
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LaTeX for publishing tabletop role-playing games
This gets styled in the PDF as:
https://i.ibb.co/ZfZXmDn/output.png
Various styles are packed in themes, which the user can select when exporting to PDF. At present, there are only three themes:
https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/tree/main/exa...
There other styles in the Boschet theme, such as speech bubbles, TODOs, and so forth:
::: bubbletx
- On why Markdown is not a good, or even a half-decent, markup language
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Millions of dollars in time wasted making papers fit journal guidelines
KeenWrite Themes[1] are instructions that tell ConTeXt how to typeset XHTML documents (content) into PDF files (presentation). I made a tutorial that shows how my FOSS desktop text editor, KeenWrite[3], allows users to write in Markdown to typeset a document against a particular theme.
Before it can be used for scientific papers, it needs cross-references, which, unfortunately, aren't part of the CommonMark specification.
I posit that the vast majority of LaTeX users don't grok how to separate content from presentation. When I asked a question on TeX.SE about how to adjust the line spacing between enumerated items (spanning a couple dozen enumerated lists), the vast majority of people voted for the answer of using `\itemsep0em` to tweak each list ... individually.[4] The correct answer, IMO, is to fix the problem globally, and not waste time tweaking individual lists.
[1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QpX70O5S30
[3]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
[4]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6081/reduce-space-be...
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Lua: The Little Language That Could
The ConTeXt typesetting system tightly integrates Lua. One aspect of Lua that I dislike is its inability to easily write OOP-ish code. What's impressive about the language is that it can be extended to do so in astonishingly little code:
* https://github.com/kikito/middleclass
With OOP in place, I was able to typeset a hexagonal grid and a symbolic representation of a neural network on top, using a more OOP-like approach. The classes are straightforward.
A vertex defines a point in 2D space:
* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/blob/main/bos...
An edge connects two vertices:
* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/blob/main/bos...
A graph connects edges:
* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/blob/main/bos...
A priority queue serves for ordering graph edges by weight of adjoining vertices:
* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/blob/main/bos...
With these concepts in hand, we can typeset a grid and a "neural network" on top:
* https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/blob/main/bos...
Here's an example of the output for chapter 1:
* https://i.ibb.co/19DCDZy/ch-1.png
And chapter 14, where the "network" has grown in complexity:
* https://i.ibb.co/ncf16vg/ch-2.png
This is for my near future hard sci-fi book on AGI. I'm looking for alpha readers to give me feedback. See profile for contact details.
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KeenWrite 3.2.0
KeenWrite uses themes to control every aspect of the presentation layer: leader dots, indentation levels, fonts, colours, hyperlinking, and so forth. This is accomplished by first converting R Markdown to XHTML then passing the XHTML to ConTeXt.
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Pure Java Typesetting System
> like font face, font size, horizontal and vertical element positioning and line spacing, etc.
May I recommend ConTeXt?
For my purposes, KeenType was only meant to provide a real-time "rough draft" of equations rendered inside of KeenWrite[0], my FOSS Markdown editor. That is, I edit in Markdown, then KeenWrite converts the inline TeX-based equations for previewing. When I'm ready to create a "finished" product, KeenWrite exports the Markdown to XHTML then feeds the XHTML, along with a theme, to ConTeXt[1]. The various themes[2] are where font faces sizes, alignment, kerning, etc. are tweaked. In this way content remains completely separated from presentation.
[0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
[1]: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page
[2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes
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Architecture diagrams should be code
KeenWrite[0], the FOSS Markdown text editor I’ve been working on, includes the ability to render plain text diagrams via Kroki[1]†. See the screenshots[2] for examples. Here’s a sample Markdown document that was typeset[3] using ConTeXt[4] (and an early version of the Solare[5] theme).
One reason I developed KeenWrite was to use variables inside of plain text diagrams. In the genealogy diagram, when any character name (that’s within the diagram) is updated, the diagram regenerates automatically. (The variables are defined in an external YAML file, allowing for integration with build pipelines.)
Version 3.x containerizes the typesetting system, which greatly simplifies the installation instructions that allow typesetting Markdown into PDF files. It also opens the door to moving Kroki into the container so that diagram descriptions aren’t pushed over the Internet to be rendered.
†Kroki, ergo KeenWrite, supports BlockDiag (BlockDiag, SeqDiag, ActDiag, NwDiag, PacketDiag, RackDiag), BPMN, Bytefield, C4 (with PlantUML), Ditaa, Erd, Excalidraw, GraphViz, Nomnoml, Pikchr, PlantUML, Structurizr, SvgBob, UMLet, Vega, Vega-Lite, and WaveDrom.
Note that Mermaid diagrams generate non-conforming SVG[6], so they don’t render outside of web browsers. There is work being done to address[7] this problem.
[0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
[1]: https://kroki.io/
[2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/main/docs/scree...
[3]: https://pdfhost.io/v/4FeAGGasj_SepiSolar_Highlevel_Software_...
[4]: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page
[5]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/
[6]: https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/issues/2485
[7]: https://github.com/yuzutech/kroki/issues/1410
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Is it possible to add LaTeX commands to a markdown file?
KeenWrite leverages KeenWrite Themes to change how documents are presented. The Tarmes theme is an example of a very basic theme, meant to act as a base for making new themes. Take a look at Tarmes, which is probably the closest answer to your question. Feel free to add issues against the issue tracker or add questions to the discussion area.
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Converting my PhD thesis into HTML
> Nevertheless, I would prefer a Markdown-based system
My free, cross-platform desktop Markdown editor, KeenWrite[1], integrates with the ConTeXt typesetting software[2]. I'm working on a branch[3] to make integration containerized[3] because its installation is painful. KeenWrite limits math to plain TeX[4] so that the output can be rendered using any TeX-based typesetter (ConTeXt, LaTeX, MathJax, εχTEX, etc.).
Here's a sample document typeset using ConTeXt (skip to page 40 for the math):
https://pdfhost.io/v/4FeAGGasj_SepiSolar_Highlevel_Software_...
That document theme is called Solare[8].
> that can use CSS and MathML
Adding CSS mixes presentation logic with content, which is something KeenWrite strives to avoid. Instead, KeenWrite implements Pandoc's annotation syntax to keep presentation logic out of the content. I've written about this extensively in my Typesetting Markdown series[5].
You can produce some pretty amazing documents just with annotations, such as the following that I wrote in Markdown and typeset using ConTeXt:
https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf
> has a 100% bibtex clone for references.
Markdown fails at references. At some point, I'd like to implement cross-references in KeenWrite. Except there's at least six competing standards for the syntax, which I've also remarked upon[6], making the choice of syntax difficult[7].
[1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
[2]: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation
[3]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/1_typeset_using...
[4]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/main/docs/scree...
[5]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow...
[6]: https://talk.commonmark.org/t/cross-references-and-citations...
[7]: https://xkcd.com/927/
[8]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/tree/main/sol...
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KeenWrite 2.10.0: R meets TeX
If ConTeXt and KeenWrite Themes are installed, then you can press Control+P to export as a PDF file, producing the output shown on the far right.
What are some alternatives?
pandoc - Universal markup converter
TALA - A diagram layout engine designed specifically for software architecture diagrams
kramdown - kramdown is a fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.
KeenWrite - Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.
marktext - 📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
character-picker - Quick and convenient character picker for Windows
markdown-it-katex - Add Math to your Markdown with a KaTeX plugin for Markdown-it
hn_mining - hackernews data
Joplin - Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
publisher - speedata Publisher - a professional database Publishing system
rehype-sanitize - plugin to sanitize HTML
mathpix-markdown-it - Markdown rendering + Latex extras (equations, tables, ...), with conversion features, for the scientific community