• About
• License
• Cherries
• Installers
• Building
  • On what platforms better use Conan to build markdown-tools?
• Known issues

Caution

In editor and converter is implemented support of RTL languages. But I don't know any of such languages. I need testers to check if I implemented everything right. Thank you.

About

This is a set of applications to work with Markdown, including editor, HTML preview viewer, converter to PDF.

License

/*
    SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Igor Mironchik <igor.mironchik@gmail.com>
    SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
*/

Cherries

You can look at a presentation here.

Installers

You can get installers for Windows at actions page. Just check for artifact at deploy_win latest workflow run.

For Linux, especially for KDE, I'd recommend to use your own build with system's Qt, in this case you won't have issues with platform integration in KDE.

For openSUSE Tumbleweed I have a repository https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/imironchik/my/ where you can get a markdown-tools package.

Building

To build these applications first of all install dependencies:

• openssl
• freetype
• libjpeg
• libpng
• zlib
• libxml2
• fontconfig
• extra-cmake-modules
• kf6-syntax-highlighting
• kf6-sonnet
• Qt >= 6.7
• tinyxml2

With these dependencies installed just open CMakeLists.txt in QtCreator (or use CMake from command line) and run build.

You can use Conan to install some dependencies.

Fontconfig should be installed in system, as using Fontconfig from Conan leads to ugly UI.

One more thing - don't use jom.

On KDE I suggest to use system's Qt libraries, as in this case applications will use KDE's Platform Plugin, that makes better integration with system.

On what platforms better use Conan to build markdown-tools?

I don't suggest to use Conan on MacOS, there will be conflicts with brew and system libraries, as I suggest to use Fontconfig from system. There will be problems. Just use brew on MacOS to install dependencies.

On Windows Conan is a fresh wind to build this project.

On Linux you can use what you want, that is why this is my favourite OS.

Known issues

• Don't use HTML attribute class in HTML tags, it can lead to wrongly rendered content. GitHub do a magic in this case, it just deletes class attribute, but this editor places HTML tags as they present.

• Strange behaviour of font combo box in fonts dialogue on check in/out check box to constraint fonts to monospaced due to QTBUG-112145

• I do not render HTML tags in PDF.

• I don't support languages that don't separate words with spaces in converter to PDF.

• SVG in PDF renders as raster image with support of Rust resvg library.