Markdown is great, but not a panacea.
Tables, in particular, just suck, especially if you want to have even slight formatting inside of the cells.
Unfortunately, it’s either plain-text-readable or rich representation. Pick your poison.
Tables, in particular, just suck, especially if you want to have even slight formatting inside of the cells.
Unfortunately, it’s either plain-text-readable or rich representation. Pick your poison.
There are very, very few. I use Marked 2, for Mac. I don't even remember if I ever found another one. It's irritating as hell, because pretty much every open-source project's read-me files are in Markdown. Why, when there is no viewer anywhere near as ubiquitous as those for PDF... despite Markdown being much simpler and better understood?
I have tried MarkText, which is yet another editor with a viewer but it's free.
<https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/>
This lets you work on the doc in a terminal window and have the (reasonably constantly updated) formatted output in a PDF viewer.
Short documents will render virtually instantly. I've not had long renders until documents extend to at least several chapters worth of text if not book-length, and even then it's a matter of a few seconds in most cases. Highly-formatted texts may of course take longer.
I happen to generally be aiming for PDF output, it's among the more complex to produce, and still runs pretty much without concern even on very large documents. Anything else would be even more trivial.