Markdown WYSIWYG

[dvorka]

Introduce MD WYSIWYG:

• JavaScript based
  • only viable option - no reasonable C++ implementations
• safe
  • before allowing user to use WYSIWYG on MD file MF knows nothing about, deserialize/serialize N to make sure it's MD w/o inlined HTML or other tweaks WYSIWYG would be unable to handle
  • enable it only if load note, save note gives identical result. Otherwise open markdown source and display explanation in status bar
• configurable
  • can be enabled/disabled in the configuration
  • ask user before first editation (entry not in .mindforger) whether they want to use WYSIWIG or not
• challenges
  • mathjax support in WYSIWYG
  • (diagrams support in...)
  • source code highlighting support in...)

Ideas:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12840132/integrated-markdown-wysiwyg-text-editor#32536112
• https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-good-WYSIWYG-markdown-editor-for-Windows

WYSIWYG MD JavaScript editors:

• CKEditor w/ Markdown addon
  • https://ckeditor.com/cke4/addon/markdown
    • :wink: demo: http://hectorguo.com/CKEditor-Markdown-Plugin/
  • https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-5/
    • https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-5/demo/
    • https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/examples/index.html
    • https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/examples/builds/classic-editor.html
  • https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-4/
    • https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-4/demo/#article
  • https://github.com/ckeditor/

MD JavaScript editors:

• https://simplemde.com

Q&A and lists:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12840132/integrated-markdown-wysiwyg-text-editor#32536112

[dvorka]

WYSIWYG to be N format which cannot be changed after, detected using MD sections metadata.

[digitalsignalperson]

Any thoughts on QTextEdit capabilities?

https://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qt5-dev/qtextedit.html

QTextEdit is an advanced WYSIWYG viewer/editor supporting rich text formatting using HTML-style tags, or Markdown format. It is optimized to handle large documents and to respond quickly to user input.

QTextEdit can display images, lists and tables.

has methods

• QString toMarkdown
• void setMarkdown

[dvorka]

@digitalsignalperson :-Z ... I missed that, thanks :+1:

I evaluated various WYSIWYG widgets and thinking about introducing WYSIWYG regularly. Basically there are the following problems:

• switching between hand written Markdown (which may contain various constructions, HTML snippets, ...)
• MathJax support
• (diagrams support)
• ... cmark-gfm extensions in general.

I just need to find a save way how to introduce WYSIWYG like: you can start with WYSIWYG, but if you switch to source you wont be able to switch back, etc.

Anyway thank you for the suggestion!