Closed aaron-j-reeves closed 6 years ago
Unfortunately, Homebrewery's approach doesn't quite use straight markdown; instead, it requires a few bits of markup to be parsed specially before generating HTML. The most notable of these, I think, are page and column breaks. This means that a straight markdown plugin is unlikely to be able to render the result in a way that's faithful to the webapp. @stolksdorf, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe with v3, which uses yet more nonstandard markdown syntax, this will become even more of a problem.
I admit I've also wished for a local version of the webapp, in particular so that I can version-control my brews with git. In #407, @brianfeister raised the possibility of packaging everything as an nwjs/electron app. Brian, did you get anywhere with that? I'd be happy to collaborate on something, but it'd probably take me too long to lay the initial groundwork.
Finally, in #348 I proposed a mechanism for advanced styling that uses only standard markdown, by essentially hijacking h6 headings for this purpose. You could imagine replacing the bits of custom syntax (like \page
) which the Homebrewery uses with h6 heading (like ###### pagebreak
), which, with a corresponding update to the stylesheet, might be enough to reduce everything to "standard markdown + fancy CSS" and open the way to the approach @ajrc0re suggests.
@ajrc0re If you add a custom style sheet to the sublime plugin you mentioned, you can make it look like the homebrewery. The standalone CSS can be found here.
@Rae2che5 I think creating a standalone app using electron would be overkill, and still not accomplish your goals. If you wish to use your own file system and source control, you can create a simple server )in any language) that would take your Markdown, compile it, wrap it into a HTML page, add the standalone css mentioned above and serve it locally.
Currently the only non-markdown syntax in the spec is the \page
notation to simply split the pages. If/when v3 is released, the modified Markdown parser I'm writing will also be released separately as open-source.
Hello, ive been using a text editor (sublime) to write my code for homebrewery for a while now, and thought it would be cool to use a markdown preview plugin to see the changes live, as if I was on the website.
Any idea if you could make something like https://packagecontrol.io/packages/MarkdownLivePreview instead show homebrewery stylesheet instead of generic markdown?