Mohamed Said recently wrote the book “Laravel Queues in Action”. To create the book he wrote it Markdown and then used his self-created tool ibis to generated the PDF and ePub versions.
Installation per Composer:
composer global require themsaid/ibis
After which you start a new project with ibis init
Check out the preview of “Laravel Queues in Action” to get an idea of what is being generated.
Markdownish syntax for generating flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, gantt charts and git graphs.
The code for the sequence diagram at the top is this:
sequenceDiagram
Alice ->> Bob: Hello Bob, how are you?
Bob-->>John: How about you John?
Bob--x Alice: I am good thanks!
Bob-x John: I am good thanks!
Note right of John: Bob thinks a long<br/>long time, so long<br/>that the text does<br/>not fit on a row.
Bob-->Alice: Checking with John...
Alice->John: Yes... John, how are you?
💁♂️ Note that this library does not render to a flattened image, but to an SVG with text nodes and such.
Also supports Decision Trees, Pie Charts, Gantt Charts, Class Diagrams, … A CLI version is also available/
Docs to Markdown (GD2md-html) converts Google Docs to simple, readable Markdown or HTML.
This add-on allows you to create documents using the excellent editing and collaborative features of Google Docs, but publish as Markdown or HTML that you can store as text files using a version-control system.
Typora will give you a seamless experience as both a reader and a writer. It removes the preview window, mode switcher, syntax symbols of markdown source code, and all other unnecessary distractions. Replace them with a real live preview feature to help you concentrate the content itself.
Looks great! Not sure if it’s still actively developed though … it’s been around since March 2015, and it looks like it hasn’t received any big updates ever since. Available on all platforms.
Inspired upon a v0 implementation, I’ve recreated a Markdown renderer in Custom Elements v1. The result is <custom-markdown>.
The code itself is pretty straightforward: other than some (contained) styling the custom element uses showdown to convert the Markdown to HTML. This conversion is triggered in the connectedCallback().
use \Michelf\Markdown;
$my_html = Markdown::defaultTransform($my_text);
This is a library package that includes the PHP Markdown parser and its sibling PHP Markdown Extra with additional features. Originally it was a port to PHP of the Markdown tool written by John Gruber.
One of the features I find lacking in Sublime Text is the default support for Markdown syntax highlighting. Fortunately Sublime Text can be customized and we can define a color scheme of our own.
To get the results as shown in the screenshot above, edit your theme file (~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/Color Scheme - Default/Monokai.tmTheme) and paste in the code below (which is inspired upon this gist) just before the </array>
