Rendering Markdown on Mac and Windows - windows

I'm using VS Code on Windows. However, I noticed that the Markdown Preview can only render very few MathJax/Latex elements compared to a friend who has a Mac. For instance, my VS Code can't render $\ce{...}$ (when writing chemical equations). What is the cause? I tried to install VS Code extensions (Markdown+Math, Markdown Preview Enhanced...) to add it, but it doesn't work. What could I do to have the same possibilities?

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Preview of math formulars in ASCiiDoc (VS Code)

I am using VS Code to write a document in ASCiiDoc. Part of this document are math formulas.
My problem is that preview of this formulars does not work. For example: If I write
latexmath:[\alpha(t_i)]
the preview is
(\alpha(t_i)).
In Git intepretation of this works, but not locally in preview. How do I fix this?
This problem was discussed in the following GitHub issues:
https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-vscode/issues/165
https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-vscode/issues/279
The solution appears to be to change the Asciidoc: Change Preview Security Settings to Disable to allow the remote content for the images to load.

Image Transparency not working

I am using Windows 8 RTM and Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. I am trying to write an application that uses UIRibbon in Visual C++. (Because I have the Express version only, I don't have access to MFC; please don't use it in your answer.)
The problem has to do with the icons I use in the ribbon. Because Windows 7 compatibility is a requirement for this project, I cannot use PNG images; I am stuck with old-school BMPs. The problem is that, while some of the BMPs are displaying correctly, most of the images have black bounding-boxes around them. I suspect the problem has to do with the BMP files, and is not in the ribbon XML file or in the code.
The BMP that displays correctly I downloaded off the Internet as part of a sample that I adapted. The BMPs that don't display correctly I extracted from an ICO file, then converted to a 32-bit image using the System.Drawing.Bitmap .NET API. (This conversion process is in done in a separate program as part of my build procedure, not at runtime.)
My question is: Does changing the bit depth of a BMP in this manner affect the colors in the image? And, if so, can anyone point out a free tool that can turn a PNG file into a 32-bit BMP file that works correctly in the Windows UIRibbon?
Do you speak of the Windows Ribbon Framework here? If so, you wouldn't be able to use PNGs anyway as the framework supports BMP only for Windows 7. With Windows 8 you can also use PNGs. See the regarding MSDN article for more information.
For a free tool which converts your PNGs into compatible BMP files, you should have a look at the visual designer that comes with the "Windows Ribbon Framework for Delphi".
You can simply load you XML markup into the editor and add your pictures. The editor will then convert the added files into BMPs if required. You can also use the editor to check if your Ribbon definition looks right. It produces valid "Windows Ribbon Framework" XML markup, so you can use the markup file in any other language such as C++, C# or Delphi for your further application development.

.master in DreamWeaver solution?

I have both dreamweaver CS5.5 and Visual Studio Ultimate 2010. Both programs I love, but I really want a way to complete all of my front end coding in Dreamweaver, and then work with the database in VS.Net.
I have been completing this by making all of the pages in VS.Net, and then clicking 'open with' Dreamweaver afterwards. Although each time I open the .master file with Dreamweaver it collapses into blank coding, propbably because it doesn't recognise it. I have researched this before,and tried to solve the problem by adding content to the documentType folder but nothing has happened. I really need some support in Dreamweaver because I am alsways changing the design of my pages, and each page uses a materpage file.
The other problem is the masterpage uses .swf files and javascript alot, which is a pain to use in VS.Net, as the code hinting doesn't work properly.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem?
I havent tested it yet, but take a look at this: http://alexle.net/archives/119
Go to **[Your_Drive_Here]:\Program Files\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX 2004\Configuration**
Open the file Extensions.txt and add your custom extensions to the list.
...
Go to the DocumentTypes folder (still in the same path), edit the file MMDocumentTypes.xml\ (fullpath: [Your_Drive_Here]:\Program Files\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX 2004\Configuration**DocumentTypes\MMDocumentTypes.xml**) with a Text Editor (i.e. Notepad or Notepad++). It’s not advisible to edit this particular xml file with Dreamweaver as the software may go crazy as it’s being used to edit itself.
Go to l*ine 67*, add the THTML extesion to the winfileextension and macfileextensionlist attributes. Here is the code exerpt
This instructions are for Dreamweaver MX 2004, but may work changing Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX 2004 for Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 (I don't have CS5.5, but assuming this had not changed until CS4 (my version), it will be there.

How do you reliably render Khmer (Indic) fonts on the web (and in PDFs)?

I've been having a world of trouble getting Khmer fonts (an Indic script of Cambodia) to render reliably on the web across platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux).
Google web fonts recently added Khmer, which seems like the best bet. However, I have not been successful getting Khmer fonts to work on any Mac or Linux system. I can get them to work on Windows by installing the Khmer Unicode installer from http://khmeros.info but not by just including Google's font in an HTML file.
For example, see this screenshot of the Google web fonts page on a fresh Windows installation. You can see that the default Windows Khmer font (uuuuugly!) is being used instead of Danh's pretty fonts.
I have another test file here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/634/khmer_test.html. For the first test, you should see something like this for both the web font and the default system font (assuming you have Hanuman installed). I have yet to find a system where both examples work reliably.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. My primary goal is to get this working on a website; a secondary goal is to get Khmer (and other Indic fonts) working in a PDF generator like iText (although I am aware iText itself does not support Indic fonts -- I'm hoping something similar does).
Every Cambodian Windows users are always delete the font name called: KhmerMool and Khmer Kampot. Then they change the default Khmer font in regedit too. You can check at http://thelifeandwork.blogspot.com/2010/01/changing-default-khmer-font-in-windows.html . I'm not sure about Khmer font and other Indic font in PDF. I always have problem when i copy Khmer unicode from PDF to put in OpenOffice or Office Word or LibreOffice.
Khmer Unicode displays on the web, it will always solve now by Google Webfont, please refer to that.
And if you want to have Khmer display in PDF by converting using iText, you can see following post:
Khmer Unicode in iText
http://ask.osify.com/qa/287
They are currently not yet support the display yet.
But, just today I can get it works by modifying the source code of iText (5.5.4-SNAPSHOT) as I just stated in my post: http://ask.osify.com/qa/613, not yet be able to publish since it's just start in testing around.
Updated 13/01/2016
I have added the source code sample for the rendering: http://ask.osify.com/qa/613
The rendering customization with iText for Khmer Unicode added in github: https://github.com/Seuksa/iTextKhmer

Embed image in code with Visual Studio

I remember reading once that there was a way to embed an image into a code file (e.g. a screenshot or diagram) in Visual Studio, but now I can't find any reference to that feature.
Is this possible to do, or am I imagining things?
EDIT: I don't mean embed the image in the executable, for use at runtime. I mean link or embed it literally in the code, for use by developers.
There is a plug-in for VS 2010 that can do this:
Plug-in
There is also a plugin for VS2012 and VS2013. At this moment installing for VS2013 does not seem to work for me though.
ImageComments extension on GitHub
You can embed images in your binary through the use of the ImageList control, which is typically used to store small icons for list controls, gridviews, etc., but could also be used for storing really any image for any purpose. A better solution would be to include a resource file and store your images there.

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