I like to use markdown languages like GitHub markdown and ASCIIDoc to provide lightweight formatting to text documents. The tags in HTML are too heavy and render the original text almost unreadable.
The problem is when I send documents to other users. They can't be bothered with installing a markdown plugin. I would like to use a markdown flavor that will render predictably in web browsers. That way I can send a URL for my document and the recipient will see the formatted text.
Is there a standard markdown language built into Firefox?
Thanks,
(PS: this is a serious question. Pedants please restrain yourselves.)
Unfortunately, at the moment, there are no major web browsers that natively support parsing and rendering markdown.
However, there are a few solutions.
Render the markdown to html and send the html document. Most renderers automatically include Stylesheets that make the html look good, or you can edit the output or templates yourself.
Get the recepent to install a extension that will render the markdown. I quickly found something by googling firefox markdown extension.
I hope this solved your problem.
How do I embed a pdf using reStructured Text? With the following directive, I only get the first page.
.. image:: /pdfs/cv.pdf
For context, I'm trying to do this in a Pelican based blog.
A plugin for Pelican called pdf-img description says:
Searches for any tags within your article for which the source is a PostScript, EPS, or PDF file. It will produce a PNG preview of the file and this PNG will be displayed as the image. This preview will also act as a link to the original file. If the PDF/PS/EPS file is a multi-page document, then only the first page will be used for the preview.
That explains why you get those results.
I could find no plugin that "embeds a PDF" (by which I assume you want to embed a PDF viewer within your Pelican blog that would display the entire PDF, allowing the viewer to scroll through it in an iframe or something like that), but you can try searching for others.
In looking for a straightforward WYSIWYG editor for Markdown code, I am not finding a comparible UI to that of CkEditor, TinyMCE, ect.
Specifically, the Markdown "WYSIWYG" editors that are often recommended (such as posts like this ) are not pure WYSIWYG editors in the sense that users either still write raw Markdown ( MarkItUp ) or go to the other extreme of having in-line editing without standard controls ( Hallo ).
I need something in-between.
I'm looking for a Markdown editor that looks and functions like a stripped down CkEditor text box, and that accepts and outputs Markdown. There should be a toolbar with a minimum set of formatting options (B, I, U, lists, ect), and the text entry area should show the converted Markdown, not the raw code. There should be a Source button that will allow users to edit the raw Markdown, but even that is optional. Ex:
I get the reason for Markdown/wiki, ect - the security it offers. I don't mind entering raw code like here at SE, but my users are not geeks and do not find this enjoyable. They don't want to see * * * ___ and spaces mixed in with their text. They are used to "Word" style editing, and are most productive in that environment.
So - is there a truly integrated WYSIWYG editor for Markdown? I'm writing in a PHP, so something that I can invoke with a class would be perfect.
Sept 23, 2015 Update
CKEditor now has a Markdown addon that does this exact thing. The addon project is hosted on github.
Screenshots:
Apr 13, 2015 Update
Someone professing to develop CKEditor says that the appearance of CommonMark is a game changer, and we could possibly see a proper markup interface for CKEditor (read comments for the full story).
Feb 6, 2015 Update
CKEditor now comes with a plugin that outputs (and accepts as input) BBCode.
Demo: http://ckeditor.com/demo#bbcode
SimpleMDE, a newcomer, may be the answer. I've been searching for something just like this for a month now. I'm surprised that this does not show up higher in search results. I had to go through a notice on lepture/editor to find this.
I was researching in this subject the other day and I haven't found any decent WYSIWYG editor with Markdown output. In fact, first you have to have to create a WYSIWG Markdown editor is WYSIWG HTML editor and there are just few of them that are usable on the market.
There's a chance that you'll be able to create dataProcessor for CKEditor that will change HTML editor into Markdown editor. We've got a plugin for BBCode that works like this (check out http://nightly-v4.ckeditor.com/3737/samples/bbcode.html).
All you have to do is implement this interface http://nightly-v4.ckeditor.com/ckeditor_api/#!/api/CKEDITOR.dataProcessor. If you check BBCode plugin's code you'll see some hacks and tricks, because unfortunately current CKEditor's architecture isn't ready (yet) to create such a data processor. However, I believe that if you want to provide only few styling options you should be able to implement Markdown support pretty quickly.
EDIT Sept 23, 2015
CKEditor now has a Markdown addon that does this exact thing. The addon project is hosted on github.
Screenshots:
As posted in my Feb 6, 2015 update, CKEditor now includes plugins that allow BBCode input and output.
A demo is available here: http://ckeditor.com/demo#bbcode
EDIT Apr 13, 2015:
Someone professing to develop CKEditor says that the appearance of CommonMark is a game changer, and we could possibly see a proper markup interface for CKEditor (read comments for the full story).
Pen is a new (active as of 2014) WYSIWYG editor that outputs Markdown.
It's not perfect—I've had issues with pasting HTML there—but it works.
Edit: Sorry! It doesn't output Markdown. Walery Strauch pointed out in the comments that the Markdown formatting signs I saw were actually CSS pseudo element rules:
Still, I'll leave it here as an option since some people upvoted this answer and it may have been of use to somebody.
I implemented a very simple editor that allows the contents of a <textarea> that contains Markdown to be edited in a WYSIWYG fashion.
I used Hallo. I don't think its web site makes it obvious that it is not itself a Markdown WYSIWYG editor but the demo does forge the path to one.
Hallo allows WYSIWYG editing of the HTML inside a <div>. I used javascript to hide any <textarea> blocks that have a specific wysiwyg CSS class, replacing it with a <div> and copying the contents of the <textarea> into the <div>. The copying runs through Showdown which produces HTML from Markdown.
Another Javascript routine reacts every time the <div> contents change. It copies the contents back into the (now hidden) <textarea>. The content is run through to-markdown to convert from HTML to Markdown.
If the <textarea> is a field in a <form>, then the edited Markdown will be sent to the server when that form is submitted.
The inspiration for this comes from the Hallo Markdown Example, specifically the editor.js file. I used that as a basis for my own script along with hallo.js, showdown.js and to-markdown.js.
My script, wysiwyg.js is a derivative of editor.js from the Hallo Markdown Example. Some points to note:
I use this in a Rails application (not that that matters)
It runs on ready and also on page:load, the latter because Rails uses Turbolinks
It runs on ajaxComplete because I use Ajax for form error reports
There are other dependencies: JQueryUI and Rangy (Rails users can avail of the gems jquery-ui-rails and rangy-rails).
Also Font Awesome is used for the tool bar icons. The version of hallo.js used by the demo is out of date (it uses an old version of Font Awesome) - use hallo.js from GitHub instead.
You only need to add CSS class='wysiwyg' to any <textarea> to enable WYSIWYG on it. The <textarea> should conain Markdown formatted text.
I would expect that wysiwyg.js could be easily adapted to use another editor if you don't like Hallo as long as it works on the HTML in a <div>. There are quite a few to choose from but not all are as lightweight as Hallo.
A smilar piece of work that I found is markdown-html-form. It uses the same Showdown and to-markdown.
I am also looking for a markdown editor that is described at the top of this thread
Have you seen "markdown tools": http://md-wysiwyg.sourceforge.net/
Demo: http://md-wysiwyg.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cgi_wysiwyg_test.py/
That seems pretty close to what we are looking for, it does a reasonable job of taking your WYSIWYG rich text and outputting markdown. However it failed on an encoding exception when I pasted in some rich text from a google doc.
I found two which currently seem to be quite popular, active and free but haven't been mentioned yet.
The first one is Toast UI Editor. It supports both modes (WYSIWYG and raw). It has official react and vuejs wrappers.
The second one is ProseMirror which calls itself "a toolkit for building rich-text editors on the web" and it seems to be very flexible and extensive. It also supports both modes.
I'm pretty sure solid unofficial react / vue / angular wrappers for it can be found as well.
I would like to convert pdf, doc files to html files using Cocoa
Please help me in this.
Thanks in advance,
You can convert Word files to HTML using NSAttributedString. You can't do this in pure Cocoa for PDF files; you'll have to use a conversion tool, such as stigi suggested. To do that, use NSTask.
Cocoa's PDFKit framework can convert a PDF file to text, through PDFDocument's -string method for example. Of course this won't copy images or formatting though, and it depends on PDFKit being able to recognize text in the file.
there are a couple of tools for the unix commandline that do such kind of conversions.
check out http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/ & http://rtf2html.sourceforge.net/
you may see if there are other tools like this.
but to get back to your question. these command line tools can be called from within your cocoa app (won't work on the iphone) and produce the html result.
check out this link for a guide on how to embed such command line tools within your app.
I'm using RIM JDE 4.2.1
I'd like my text fields to auto-capitalize the first letter of sentences, add punctuation at the end, and reference the AutoText DB on the device. It seems like this would/should be a Field type in the API but either I'm missing it or it's just not there.
For reference, the API is located here: http://www.blackberry.com/developers/docs/4.2.1api/index.html
net.rim.device.api.ui.component.AutoTextEditField