Interesting... When I run head against an MD file generated by Joplin, I get an entirely different file structure.
> [jason@XPS15 tmp]$ head Welcome\!\ \(Desktop\)/1.\ Welcome\ to\ Joplin\!\ > 🗒️.md > 1. Welcome to Joplin! 🗒️ > > # Welcome to Joplin! 🗒️ > > Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which > helps you write and organise your notes, and synchronise them between your > devices. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and > modified either from the applications directly or from your own text > editor. The notes are in [Markdown format](https://joplinapp.org/#markdown). > Joplin is available as a ** desktop**, ** mobile** and ** > terminal** application. > > The notes in this notebook give an overview of what Joplin can do and how > to use it. In general, the three applications share roughly the same > functionalities; any differences will be clearly indicated. > > ![](../_resources/4a2c2f8b67b745ffbc6eb76fe638e571.png I think you and I are looking at different file types. I ran head against a random README.md from github and got something closer to what you had, but Okular rendered this fine: > [jason@XPS15 jest]$ head README.md > <p align="center"> > <a href="http://badge.fury.io/js/jest";><img src=" > https://badge.fury.io/js/jest.svg"; alt="npm version"></a> > <a href="https://github.com/facebook/jest/blob/master/LICENSE";> > <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg"; alt="Jest > is released under the MIT license." /> > </a> > <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=fbjest";><img > align="center" src=" > https://img.shields.io/twitter/follow/fbjest.svg?style=social&label=Follow%20@fbjest"; > alt="Follow on Twitter"></a> > </p> > > <!-- A spacer --> > <p> </p> > > I think the > <!DOCTYPE html> > <html lang="en" data-color-mode="auto" data-light-theme="light" data > dark-theme="dark"> > is confusing Okular. As soon as I removed those lines, it stopped rendering the code and actually tried rendering it (unsuccessfully). Not sure how to help from here, but I hope I have pointed you in a useful direction. Jason On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 9:42 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 2021, Jason Barnett wrote: > > > Try Okular, it will read MD files and can save PDF. > > Jason, > > I opened the .md file in Okular and tried saving it as a PDF, but that > didn't work. So I exported it as a .pdf yet it's still all html; e.g., > > <!DOCTYPE html> > <html lang="en" data-color-mode="auto" data-light-theme="light" data > dark-theme="dark"> > <head> > <meta charset="utf-8"> > <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://github.githubassets.com";> > <link rel="dns-prefetch" > href="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com";> > <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://github > cloud.s3.amazonaws.com"> > <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://user > images.githubusercontent.com/"> > > > Sigh. > > Thanks, > > Rich >
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