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➡️ burgeonlab.com/2025/retext-mar

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!

github.com/retext-project/rete

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

www.burgeonlab.comReText: Markdown Editor (How to Install Python Apps on Mac) - Burgeon LabExperiment with Markdown editors on Macs. Full guide on ReText Linux app installation on macOS, advantages of Markdown, and installing Python apps on Mac.

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: 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:

  
This beside the emoji helps, however, there is a small catch. Your readers who may be blind, and depend on a screen reader, my run into an issue if this is directly beside the emoji. So it is important to include 1 manual space beside the emoji, for example:
😇   

And not like this:
😇  

#Accessibility #Markdown #Git #Development

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! 😀

copim.pubpub.org/pub/markdown-

Copim · Markdown, dive deep23 May 2025, 15:00-16:30 CEST: A hybrid online session exploring Markdown writing & publishing for deep mapping

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!

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

ggg: #guile #scheme #glyph #generator

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

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.

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Es ist ein Kaninchenloch.

Heute Teil 1 einer Schulung zu #Lia'Script - ebenfalls #markdown basiert, aber optimiert für die Lehre. Mega.

Und mein Arbeitgeber hat gerade für teuer Geld ein Moodle-System bestellt. Von dem Geld hätte man Software-Lizenzen für Video-Schnitt etc kaufen können und statt des LMS dann LiaScript verwenden. Nuja. Nächstes Mal.

Vielleicht kann man ja auch schon was kombinieren.