[TxMt] Re: Markdown Here for current Markdown bundle

[Angelo Varlotta]

Hi Martin,
I'm using pandoc now and it rendersbeautifully in themarkdown 
preview, including the tables, strikethroughs and MathJax. 
Thanks a lot for your help!

Cheers,
Angelo

Martin Kühl wrote:
> On 5 July 2015 at 11:39, Angelo Varlotta<angelovarlotta at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Sounds like I would need to make/find a specific tool for Markdown Here, and
>> have the current Markdown bundle use that. I've been browsing through the
>> Markdown Here Github code but I don't see how to implement it in TextMate.
>> Could you be more specific on what I would have to do?
>
> What you need is a command-line tool that can convert your preferred
> markdown dialect into HTML.
> “Markdown Here” doesn’t seem to provide such a tool, only browser extensions.
>
> I recommend you choose a dialect and tool that supports it.
> The common ones seem to be be [MultiMarkdown][1] and [Pandoc][2].
> You can find out about their respective dialects [here][3] and [here][4].
> Both of them support diffent kinds of tables,
> and there is a [comparison][5] available.
>
> [1]: http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/
> [2]: http://pandoc.org/
> [3]: http://fletcher.github.io/MultiMarkdown-4/syntax.html
> [4]: http://pandoc.org/README.html#pandocs-markdown
> [5]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/wiki/Pandoc-vs-Multimarkdown
>
> You would then install the tool you chose(via MacPorts, Homebrew, or manually;
> Pandoc provides an [installer package for OS X][6])
> and set TM_MARKDOWN to its full path, e.g. `/opt/local/bin/multimarkdown`,
> or to that path to a script that calls the tool with your preferred
> options, like
>
>      #!/bin/sh
>      exec /usr/local/bin/pandoc --from=markdown "$@"
>
> [6]: http://pandoc.org/installing.html
>
> Alternatively, you could request such a command-line tool from the
> “Markdown Here” authors.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Martin
>
>> Martin Kühl wrote:
>>
>> On 5 July 2015 at 10:21, Angelo Varlotta<angelovarlotta at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> What I have noticed is that the default Markdown bundle doesn't support some
>> syntax features of Markdown Here in the Markdown Preview, such as tables and
>> strikethrough for example. Is there a way of adding these extra Markdown
>> Here features in the current TextMate bundle so that they are properly
>> viewed in the Preview? I've tried to use the redcarpet Markdown bundle and
>> the Github-flavored Markdown bundle versions, which present some
>> highlighting within TextMate itself but fail to make the preview work as
>> well. I've noticed that one can add MathJax support with the preference
>> option TM_MARKDOWN_MATHJAX set to 1. Is there something like that for extra
>> Markdown Here syntax support?
>>
>> There is!
>> If you install a tool that processes “Markdown Here”,
>> you can set TM_MARKDOWN to the path to that tool,
>> and TextMate will start using it to render previews.
>>
>> If you don’t set the variable, TM defaults to the original Markdown.pl,
>> which only supports the classic syntax.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
>>

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