Something like TeXstudio, but for markdown?
from monovergent@lemmy.ml to linux@lemmy.ml on 25 Jun 02:30
https://lemmy.ml/post/32218173

On occasion, I’ll have to work with markdown files, sometimes with inline LaTeX. I’m surprised how limited my options are, or I’m looking in the wrong places. Pandoc does the job, but the lack of a integrated graphical workflow isn’t my cup of tea.

Has anyone found a good graphical markdown editor that can handle inline LaTeX and doesn’t pull a gigabyte of dependencies? Preferably also can render the final output to PDF.

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astro_ray@piefed.social on 25 Jun 02:51 next collapse

I think something like Apostrophe might work for you.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/apostrophe

xavier666@lemm.ee on 25 Jun 10:33 collapse

Looks suspiciously like github.com/marktext/marktext

Edit: Ignore please, the project is dead

far_university1990@reddthat.com on 25 Jun 04:11 next collapse

Obsidian?

Or sublime text, but no preview and render using pandoc command, can define as build parameter.

danielquinn@lemmy.ca on 25 Jun 04:42 next collapse

I don’t know about LaTeX support, but Joplin supports a lot of Markdown extensions out of the box (I’ve used it for Mermaid charts for example) and it’s Free software.

Edit: it looks like Joplin supports something called Katex. I don’t know if that does it for you.

Full details are here

IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org on 25 Jun 04:53 next collapse

Zettlr! Its designed around writing manuscripts in markdown+latex, then exporting to pure LaTeX, PDF, or any other Pandoc-supported format via a builtin Pandoc GUI. The only thing that doesn’t work particularly well is the table editor, but they’re working on it.

It is electron based, but almost all graphical editors for markdown + inline latex are (obsidian, etc.) because MathJax & KaTeX are the most mature method to render LaTeX inside other document formats.

Obsidian is also good, but it’s not FOSS and their built-in export isn’t great.

enemenemu@lemm.ee on 25 Jun 05:06 next collapse

What is inline latex? Do you just mean math, or do you really use latex functions?

Do you really have to use latex or can’t you already migrate to typst?

For raw markdown I can recommend any text editor I guess. I use vscode/codium the most.

monovergent@lemmy.ml on 26 Jun 01:10 collapse

Math, particularly snippets from larger manuscripts and documentation thrown around between colleagues. Can’t really predict when they send a .tex and when they send a .md for review.

enemenemu@lemm.ee on 26 Jun 16:37 collapse

Vscode is a good one. You may want eto use extensions. You can then drop texstudio as well.

If you are looking for WYSIWYG, marktext is great. But there are lots of markdown editors.

Iirc, Kde also published one last year which looked neat

If you are curious, zed might be the editor of the future.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip on 25 Jun 10:40 next collapse

Typora and Zettlr i think?

ctenidium@lemmy.world on 25 Jun 11:27 next collapse

Quarkdown

Markdown meets the power of LaTeX in this modern typesetting system.
And it’s free and open source.

rutrum@programming.dev on 25 Jun 14:44 collapse

Ive started writing in typst. Its simple enough when doing not so complicated things, but an entire ecosystem is available the moment I want to do something complicated. But it does not have LOCAL graphical editor, but there is an online version you can use. Ive never tried it.