New Blog Post!

https://www.burgeonlab.com/2025/retext-markdown-editor-how-to-install-python-apps-on-mac/

I'm kinda obsessed about #Markdown editors. I love live previews/dual-panel views, minimal UI and customizable nature.

I discovered #ReText, a #python based md editor, which is not technically supported on Macs, but I got it working in the end after trial and error!

https://github.com/retext-project/retext

Read my guide on how to get it running and let me know how it goes!

Mon marronier perso : quelqu'un sait si le support de #Markdown est dans une quelconque roadmap de mastodon ?

(Et oui, je sais, d'autres app du fediverse le supporte)

ThiefMD, mój ulubiony edytor Markdown, w którym piszę wszystkie notki na bloga, zanim je zaimportuję do WordPress, od dłuższego czasu jest już nierozwijany, a jego najnowsza wersja pochodzi z czerwca 2023.

Na szczęście niedawno znalazła się osoba, która postanowiła stworzyć jego nową wersję, wykorzystującą Gtk4. Na razie to bardzo wczesna sprawa, nawet nazwę ma tymczasową, ale daje mi nadzieję, że w przyszłości będę mógł się przesiąść na coś, co nie wymaga trzymania na dysku środowiska, którego wsparcie zakończyło się ponad rok temu.

Rozwój programu można śledzić na Githubie: https://github.com/sevonj/theftmd

Today, I learned how to better help people with poor eyesight and those who are blind and use a screen reader.

Adding an emoji within a GIT markdown, can generally be helpful as it can break things up nicely and be more visually pleasing than seeing a wall of text. However, without proper spacing, someone with poor eyesight may see the emoji blurred into the wording, yet markdown often ignores manual double-spaces. That means you need to encode them like this:

  

   

  

The “code” Element, by @heydon:

https://heydonworks.com/article/the-code-element/

Enjoying 90 mins away from the coalface with @simonxix @scrivenersmith @copim and others, to hear more about new frontiers in (scholarly) publishing, e.g. harnessing markdown, deploying Juncture, peer review via GitHub, Linked Open Data, WikiData, and other animals... Juicy! Noice!

https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/markdown-dive-deep/release/3?readingCollection=ace58019

Recurring #TechWriting issue that I still haven't found a good solution for:

Is anyone aware of a decently reliable automation for reformatting #Markdown text that previously used line length limits of 80 characters and forced line wraps, to one sentence per line?

Must preserve all Markdown formatting including tables and fenced code blocks.

(If you think this is trivial and can be solved with a sprinkling of regex — nope.)

Boosts appreciated!

When rendering inline text enclosed in backticks to HTML or PDF, #Markdown parsers should turn any normal whitespace (`U+0020`) contained therein into non-breaking space (`U+00A0`).

Discuss.

Hike - Markdown-Editor für das Terminal

Notizen rasch im Terminal einfügen oder lesen - dafür ist das kleine Tool "Hike" ideal.

#Terminal #Markdown #Texteditor #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/hike-markdown-editor-für-das-terminal

Oh holy hell this is cool. And backed by secure MARKDOWN FILES ON YOUR LOCAL MACHINE. Nuts. https://mas.to/@obsidian/114546531606054864

Notizen direkt mit der Nextcloud-App erstellen.

@gnulinux
#nextcloud #notizen #markdown

https://gnulinux.ch/notizen-im-alltag-einfach-ohne-apps-mit-der-nextcloud

mattgemmell/pandoc-novel: Novel export configuration for pandoc (Markdown to ePub and PDF) https://github.com/mattgemmell/pandoc-novel/tree/main

Export novels in publishing-ready state from #Markdown files via #pandoc and this export configuration by @mattgemmel@mastodon.scot -- see the examples PDF in the repo.

I had a moment of inspiration and created #ggg take a look (still #experimental #foss software)

ggg: #guile #scheme #glyph #generator

https://codeberg.org/jjba23/ggg

Through #svg generation from #lisp we leverage a (wip) #dsl and apply some #math knowledge to build pixel perfect project #markdown / #org badges.

It also scripts #imagemagick to export to #png or #webp .

You can then use the svgs in your #codeberg (or #github) repository #readme for example.

I provide a #guix manifest in the repo

I’m finally making a tool to *send* #webmentions from my blog. I thought it would be easy, but pulling all the links out of a #markdown file is actually kind of complicated

Hottake zu #Digitalisierung und #unplugtrump :

Wer diskutiert, ob #msoffice durch #libreoffice ersetzt werden kann, beispielsweise in der #Schule , hat m.E. Digitalisierung noch nicht verstanden:
Texte in #office zu schreiben ersetzt ein Blatt Papier durch ein digitales Blatt Papier. Es bleibt eine den Papierseiten als Dokumentenstruktur verhaftete Denkweise.
Ein Wechsel in der #Bildung zu #markdown oder #orgmode wäre ein Wechsel, in Inhaltlichen Strukturen statt in Seiten zu denken.

Is there a #CLI tool that can convert markdown files to PDFs that is not Pandoc? Pandoc has a lot of dependencies that I won't use, so I'd like to avoid that.