[New Plugin] MarkdownViewer++

Kasper Graversen

Great stuff. Did you find the plugin pack easy to use (https://github.com/kbilsted/NotepadPlusPlusPluginPack.Net)? If you like it, please link to it from your readme - I’d be nice with some traction and more people to help out with maintaining it. And linking to it is the first step in that direction ;-)

cheers
Kasper

nea

Hey Kasper

Actually, it is the first link in my README.md under “License and Credits” as I would never take credit for your plugin pack. I hope that linkage and usage is fine for you. Otherwise, let me know.

It was an ease to use, especially with the Demo Plugin. Big thanks for that :) And after your hint to ILMerge and figuring out some stuff it worked even better.

Thanks and Cheers

Kasper Graversen

Hi @nea

Sorry I didn’t mean to say that due credits were not given! ;) I just overlooked that first bullet in the readme. Great to know that ilmerge worked. If you feel like it, it’d be great if you could jot down your experiences and setup for using 3rd party dll’s with the plugin pack - somewhere a suitable section should be created in the readme. If you feel like it that would be awesome! Looking forward to a PR :-P

btw. I’ve linked from the plugin pack to your plugin ;)

cheers

nea

Hi everyone

I just released an updated version 0.5.0 with several changes

@xomx I added an options dialog to allow some configuration. For example you can configure file extensions that should be rendered
Several bug fixes have been made (big thanks to @dail)

You can find the newest releases at https://github.com/nea/MarkdownViewerPlusPlus/releases.

The changes are bigger so there may be issue popping up. You can always leave a note at https://github.com/nea/MarkdownViewerPlusPlus/issues and I will see to it being fixed as quick as possible.

Upcoming additions will be:

Asynchronous rendering to improve the behaviour with large documents
View rendered HTML on-the-fly
and everything you and I can think of :)

Thanks a lot and Cheers

nea

Hey

A quick follow-up-update with version 0.6.0. Thanks @xomx and @dail for finding and reporting issues with 0.5.0.

Updated to the newest NotepadPlusPlusPluginPack.net version by @Kasper-Graversen
@chcg With the update of the plugin pack I started producing x86 and x64 releases

You can find the newest releases at https://github.com/nea/MarkdownViewerPlusPlus/releases

Again, should you discover any bugs, post them at https://github.com/nea/MarkdownViewerPlusPlus/issues and I will get to it as fast as I possibly can.

Thanks and Cheers

xomx

Tried a simple SVG file to render but with no luck, is it really working?

my sample:

<?xml version=“1.0”?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd”>

nea

Hi

How was the SVG embedded, so how was the url to the SVG?

Thanks

xomx

URL?
I used the very svg file (see the above) and also the same in a simple html file like:

nea

Hi @xomx

Ok, then maybe it came of wrong.

The MarkdownViewer++ does not render SVG files in Notepad++. It renders SVG files from sources, embedded inside a Markdown file. Sorry if that got of wrong.

As I mentioned, I wanted to focus first on Markdown files, even if direct SVG rendering would be possible right now.

There was an issue in an earlier version where the used renderer library didn’t support SVG natively. So, I added it… for according links/URLs in the Markdown file. That is what I fixed and what should work at the moment.

Sorry about any confusion

PS: If you like to see that feature in the future, maybe add it as issue and I will see how I can generalize the rendering functionality in the future ^^
Thanks

xomx

Ok, I see now.

nea

Hi

Update 0.7.0 has just been released.

Some more new features/additions have been made besides some smaller bugfixing:

Added a menu action to print the rendered content directly
Added margins configuration for PDF exports
Added a menu action to copy the rendered content to the clipboard
Added options to open an exported PDF/HTML after the action completed
Added a menu action to send content as HTML/Text E-mail (requires Outlook)

You can find the newest release at https://github.com/nea/MarkdownViewerPlusPlus/releases

Should you discover any bugs, post them at https://github.com/nea/MarkdownViewerPlusPlus/issues and I will get to it as fast as I possibly can.

Thanks a lot and Cheers

Alex

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OldskoolOrion

@nea This is one of those times, I come across something and feel the need to slap myself on the forehead and go “DOOH” Homer Simpson-style… A lot of colleagues and I work A LOT with markdown since it’s fast to write, and very little effort to write a lot of descriptive text - for instance complex unstructured datasets while research is ongoing - and still make it look good and professional… only downside with describing datasets is, that there is NO way around not checking regularly to how it looks in output, especially since records or JSON sets can get very long - describing fields in blocks lining up with what could be a relationship… writing them in an online tool isn’t ideal and so wasn’t switching between windows either… and that’s why not thinking of a plugin myself or any colleague I regularly work together with, is pretty stupid actually for a bunch of scientists :-) Shows again that visionaries in one field, can be blind as a bat in a different field :-) I like the plugin a lot sofar and had no trouble in convincing others to give it a go… sending the link to your github did the trick :-) Thank you !

Ethan Piliavin

Would you consider a dark theme option for those of us that enjoy to work in the dark?

A Former User

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Ekkehard Pofahl

@nea ,

Thank you very much for that great tool ! Although I am already happy and have gotten more than I expected, I will gladly follow any improvement. One very little improvement for new users may be to set the “synchronize” checkmark to “on” as default, ;-) .

nea

Hi everyone

After a long idle period (really sorry about that) I just updated to 0.8.0:

Changed CommonMark converter to Markdig to support more custom Markdown syntax such as Pipe Tables etc.
Updated PDFSharp and HTMLRenderer.PDFSharp accordingly (custom compilation, not in NuGet for the moment as HTMLRenderer has to merge my PR first!)
Updated the NPP.net Plugin Template

You can find the newest release at https://github.com/nea/MarkdownViewerPlusPlus/releases/tag/0.8.0

Regarding all the issues: I have not forgotten about them but have to find the time and will get onto them ^^

Cheers

nea

Heyho

An unfortunate old bug stumbled back into release 0.8.0 why I just released a small update:

Fixed a bug cutting off text after 10000 characters
Changed parsing of custom CSS to recognize @import statements and have them lead

You can find the newest release at https://github.com/nea/MarkdownViewerPlusPlus/releases/tag/0.8.1

Really sorry about that

Michael Vincent

@nea

Are you still developing the MardownViewer++ plugin? It looks pretty stale on GitHub and there are some bugs with the upgrades to N++ / Scintilla during that timeframe. I still use it, but it could be improved. I don’t know C# and I can’t get Visual Studio to fetch the nuget packages it’s asking for. I’d be happy to contribute if only it was in C++.

Cheers.

Michael Vincent

@Michael-Vincent

ALCON: I’ve seen a more recently maintained version:

https://github.com/UrsineRaven/NppMarkdownPanel

to which I’ve submitted a pull request to fix the auto-refresh while typing and make the auto-scrolling not so severe.

You can find my version at:
https://github.com/vinsworldcom/NppMarkdownPanel

NOTE: “My” version is completely UNSUPPORTED and only there as a repo for a pull request to someone else’s work.

Cheers.