Markset

A simple Markdown Typesetter (probably a misnomer, but I’ll go with it) for people who don’t want to touch L^AT_EX with a 10 foot pole.

It’s a simple command-line tool that converts your Markdown files to HTML (with some snazzy themes) and some off-the-shelf plugins. All built on top of markdown-it.

This is not close to production-ready, but it’s still somewhat usable.

Installation

You know the routine.

(sudo) npm install -g markset

Usage

Usage: markset [options] <filename>

Options:
  -V, --version           output the version number
  -t, --theme <name>      select a theme
      --list-themes       list available themes
  -o, --output <file>     output filename
  -s, --simple            use simple Markdown
  -h, --html-tags         enable HTML tags in source
  -x, --xhtml-out         use XHTML closing tags
  -b, --breaks            convert newlines to breaks (<br>)
  -l, --linkify           automatically detect links in text
  -T, --typographer       typographic improvements
  -q, --quotes <replace>  quote replacements (see man page)
  -h, --help              output usage information

Themes

There are 4 themes available:

• blank – The minimum skeleton and not much more.
• simple – A simple theme meant to fit in with your platform.
• nicer – A more styled theme based on whatever I thought looked nice.
• none – Use this if you only want the raw HTML output.

Markdown Extentions

Since markdown-it has support for plugins, I decided to include and enable some myself. If you want vanilla Markdown, you can use the --simple switch.

• Superscript (^sup^, ^sup, plugin)
• Subscript (~sub~, _sub, plugin)
• Footnote (^[Inline note], plugin)
• Abbreviations (*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language, plugin)
• Insertion (++ins++, ins, plugin)
• Marking (==mark==, mark, plugin)

Why?

I made this for me to not faff around with thinks like StackEdit and GitHub Gists only for Markdown rendering, especially just simple for a reflection or answer sheet. Who do you think I am?

Commenting on LATEX, while it’s good for maths heavy things… I much better prefer the readability for Markdown over it every day. Especially for non-equation heavy subjects like cybersecurity and engineering technology.

I’ll see how useful it is by the time the holiday wraps up in a couple of weeks.

Feature Wishlist

This isn’t over. There are still features I’d like to implement someday. Ordered by priority (which in reality the opposite of what I’m likely to actually do).

• Syntax highlighting
• Dictionary linter (also known as a spell checker)
• Language intent parser (English only) — I found a project like this project interesting but can’t find it anymore.
• More, better themes
• More modular and expandable design
• Language dependent quotations
• Make a sub-page for demos

If you’ve got any suggestions (or any good implementations of the aforementioned features), please submit an Issue or Pull Request and we’ll talk things out from there.