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Questions relating to Markdown, a lightweight markup language which allows people “to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format"

Markdown is a lightweight markup language which allows people “to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid HTML"

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What advantages does markdown have over asciidoc?

I've been using Asciidoc ever since I discovered it and use it a lot to be my defacto README text file. It's readable in text and it can output all kinds of other formats, like man pages, pdf, html, etc. Lately I've been seeing more and more…
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Is there a markdown "rich text" editor?

I have become fed up with writing down markdown tables scratch, I need some "rich text editor like" program to automate creation of markdown for me and hence of tables. The only rich text editor I work with is LibreOffice Writer and it doesn't…
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Is there any text editor which supports Markdown (Ask Ubuntu's formatting style)?

Is there any text editor with support for Markdown (formatting syntax used by Ask Ubuntu) which can be used to write questions or answers while you are offline?
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Deckset app alternative

Mac OSX have a good app called deckset http://decksetapp.com/. This app make slides from markdown text.... Someone know an alternative for ubuntu?
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Okular not rendering markdown files

Recently I installed Ubuntu 20.04, and then Okular. In my previous Ubuntu 18.04 I often used Okular to render markdown files. Now it is not rendering these format. Do I have to install something extra?
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A terminal based markdown editor that supports shortcuts

I am looking for a terminal based markdown editor which support shortcut keys like ctrl+b which will output **enter bold text here** or something like that to the markdown file. Same way for italics, numbered list, blockquotes, code tags etc. Just…
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How do I make a Markdown table of two columns out of a list whose items alternate to each column?

I have a long list of common abbreviations for words in periodical titles. In the list, the full word is followed by its abbreviation. For example: Administration Admin. Applied Appl. Administrative Administ. Approximate Approx. I want to turn the…
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How to convert Markdown to PDF (with word wrapping)

Using pandoc like: pandoc -o output.pdf input.md does not give me a result with word-wrapping. For instance, three liner input.md looks like the following: # Introduction Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, scelerisque natoque, in etiam erat nibh lacus,…
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When I create a new directory, create a markdown file with the same name in it

I want to create a lot of directories (manually, using the GUI). I will then want to have inside them a markdown document with the same name as the directory, so this sort of tree: 624466 └ 624466.md 626665 └ 626665.md How can I automate the .md…
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Haroopad not starting and prompt of "NVCtrl extension does not exist" message

I installed Haroopad on my Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 system. I had to change some symbolic links in order to make it work. However after I've closed it, I tried to run it, but I'm getting this message: `[3964:0201/150344:INFO:gpu_info_collector_x11.cc(80)]…
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how to make markdown extension to work?

I installed markdown here extension to chromium. In Gmail I created a new email with this text _Hello_ `Markdown` **Here**! but the conversion to markdown doesn't work. I tried all the options: Highlighting the text and then ctrl+alt+m, right click…
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Error while installing Remarkable Editor

I downloaded the .deb file of Remarkable Markdown editor in Ubuntu 20.04. As soon as I started to run the .deb file, it is showing the following error: Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: gir1.2-webkit-3.0 As far as I know, WebKit is a browser…
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Geany - how to disable mark option in find function?

I pressed mark but now I have no idea how to disable it. And I can not google this. Just closing the window doesn't help.
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Where can I find a better version of markdown?

I'm using markdown from the repos on Ubuntu 19.10. This seems to be a quite old version: >markdown -v This is Markdown, version 1.0.1. Copyright 2004 John Gruber http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ It doesn't support useful features such…
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Usage of sed(stream editor)

I have a file containing text **This is bold text** *This is italicized text* I wish to convert the above into \textbf{This is bold text} \emph{This is italicized text} using stream editor(sed). Kindly guide me on this matter. I have used…
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