Hi H, I suggest subscribing to the geany-devel <https://www.geany.org/support/mailing-lists/#geany-devel> mailing list. If there's any talk about new releases, it will be there.
Kind regards, -- *Lucas Vieites <https://namedrop.io/lucasvieites>* Blog @ codexion.com <https://blog.codexion.com/> LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasvieites> On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM H via Users <[email protected]> wrote: > On March 29, 2025 4:39:03 PM EDT, H <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On March 27, 2025 12:08:41 AM EDT, Lex Trotman via Users < >> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Note that plugins are maintained individually. In the case for markdown >>> there has not been much communication by its creator and only changes being >>> ones OS ready people provide to keep it working. So you would most likely >>> need to provide changes to the plugin if you could as there has been no >>> touch of the markdown for near 11 months. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 at 13:42, H via Users <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On March 26, 2025 1:15:37 PM GMT-04:00, Little Girl via Users < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >Hey there, >>>> > >>>> >H via Users wrote: >>>> > >>>> >>Will the markdown preview plugin in geany 2.1 offer broader support >>>> >>of the markdown syntax? >>>> > >>>> >I can't answer that, but I've got work-arounds listed below. >>>> > >>>> >>I am particularly interested in support for tables and footnotes. >>>> > >>>> >I do most of my Markdown and reStructuredText editing in Geany, but >>>> >have added these three commands into the "Markdown commands" section >>>> >of the "Set Build Commands" entry in the "Build" menu of Geany to >>>> >help out, especially with viewing the rendered files: >>>> > >>>> >okular "%f" >>>> >ebook-viewer "%f" >>>> >formiko "%f" > /dev/null 2>&1 >>>> > >>>> >My Geany toolbar contains these icons and I can't remember if I >>>> >manually added them or if they showed up automatically when I put >>>> >those three commands into the "Build" menu: >>>> > >>>> > * The "Compile the current file" icon opens the current file >>>> > in Okular, which is a universal document viewer. >>>> > >>>> > * The "Build the current file" icon opens the current file in >>>> > E-book viewer, which is a document viewer installed by the >>>> > Calibre package. >>>> > >>>> > * The "Run or view the current file" opens the current file >>>> > in Formiko, which is a side-by-side reStructuredText and >>>> > Markdown editor/viewer. >>>> > >>>> >In the event that you don't get those three icons automatically, >>>> >there's menu access to all of these things, but I just prefer a click >>>> >quick of a button over that. Also, I'd be happy to poke around >>>> >in-depth to find out exactly what I did to add them and share that >>>> >here. >>>> > >>>> >As to your particular interest, neither Okular nor Formiko render >>>> >Markdown footnotes or tables correctly, but E-book viewer does. >>>> > >>>> >And just as a side note, in case you decide to try out all the things >>>> >I use, when I use the Geany toolbar icon to open the current Geany >>>> >file in Formiko, I can do some editing in the Formiko window if I >>>> >like. Then, when I close Formiko and save the changes, Geany >>>> >recognizes that the file changed and pops up a notification offering >>>> >to let me click to refresh the file. >>>> > >>>> >Also, to see your Markdown or reStructuredText files rendered in a >>>> >different way, you can create a GitHub account, if you don't already >>>> >have one, and then create a private Markdown Gist and paste any >>>> >Markdown contents you're editing in Geany into it and preview the >>>> >Gist. I find that especially useful when I've got a lot of inline >>>> >code and/or blocks of code, since GitHub colors the background on >>>> >them to make it easy to quickly spot them in huge documents. >>>> >>>> Thank you very much for your workarounds. Would be great though, if >>>> this coming version of the markdown preview plugin would support expanded >>>> markdown syntax in itself. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Users mailing list -- [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>>> >>> >> Noted. It would be great if geany 2.1 were to be released soon. I could >> then start taking a look at the markdown preview plugin code to see if I >> could improve it. > > > Just want to see if there is any news on the release of geany 2.1? > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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