![]() Ctrl-clicking one of these items in the markup provides an instant preview of that element to appear. The editor also provides inline previews for images, formulas, footnotes, and more. The editor itself has inline previews built in, so text marked up as bold is displayed bold. UberWriter is a minimal Markdown editor and previewer that allows you to edit in text, and preview the rendered document. ![]() This article covers 3 desktop applications for Fedora Workstation that help out when editing Markdown. By design, Markdown is easily created and edited in a text editor, however, there are a multitude of editors available that provide a formatted preview of Markdown markup, and / or provide a text editor that highlights the markdown syntax. Markdown (and Markdown derivatives) are used extensively as the primary form of markup of documents on services like GitHub and pagure. Thanks for reading.Markdown is a lightweight markup language that is useful for adding formatting while still maintaining readability when viewing as plain text. I might also consider learning the syntax of R markdown, in which case R Studio might become a third option, but that’s only a possibility at this point, and at any rate a story for a later time. For now, my writing scheme will be splilt between Jupyter Notebooks for posts involving code execution, and Typora for casual and math-exclusive articles. To me, the simplicity and powerfulness of Typora seems to strike just the right balance. Also, many of them come with a wealth of additional features that I will perhaps never use. However, not all such applications are free (Typora is free on macOS as of now). I know that there are other popular editors and note-taking applications out there, such as Bear and Notion, which I might try out in the future. This is not to say that Typora is lacking in functionality: it comes with full support for $\LaTeX$ and code snippet support, with real-time rendering of course, my favorite part. The minimalilstic looks of the editor makes it distraction-free, allowing the user to concentrate on writing and writing only, which is precisely what a text editor is designed for. ![]() Upon installation, the user is sent to a refreshingly blank slate, with only a single cursor blinking at the user as if welcoming them to write and get creative. It’s UI is clean and simple, making the editor extremely intuitive and easy to use. Typora is a wondeful text editor that suits my minimalistic taste. (Yes, I might have minor obsessive-compulsive disorder, although I highly doubt it given that my actual physical desktop is in a state of chaos most of the time. At the minimum, I use the sort function to make sure that the dekstop’s aesthetics is passable by my standards. I have seen many people who are completely oblivious to the looks of their desktop-a matter of personal preference that I fully respect and understand-but for some inexplicable reason, I cannot stand looking at a desktop with files scattered about here and there. For instance, I always keep my computer’s desktop clean and empty. My odd penchant for minimalism bleeds into many areas of my life, big and small, significant and frivolous. I have always been a fervent supporter of minimalism. However, lately I have realized that for posts that do not require code executions or visualizations, there are far superior options out there, one of which is the editor I am using right now to write this post: Typora. Because many of my posts involve mathematical expressions written in $\LaTeX$ commands as well as code snippets, Jupyter Notebook was a choice that made sense. So far, my default multi-purpose text editor has been Jupyter Notebook. Disclaimer: I was not sponsored by the developers of Typora to write this post, although that would have been great.
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