Markender

Do you love using markdown? Do you wish you could use it for reports? With Markender you can!

It includes everything you need to create an amazing report:

• Cover-pages
• Table of contents
• Formulas
• Checklists
• Image-referencing
• Bibliography

Style it just the way you want with the following built in styles:

• Latex
• Dropbox
• Github
• Somnox
• ACM (work in progress)

All Components

By using web-components we make additions easy and simple. Furthermore, if one does not have the extension, they see nothing! The following web components are defined and can be used within vscode:

md-bib-item

Properties

Property	Attribute	Description	Type	Default
bibitem	--		BibtexEntry	undefined
name	name		string	undefined

md-bib

For the loading of the bibliography and doi-references you need to disable security with Markdown: Change Preview Security Settings The citation key is shown between brackets, to help you quickly find that reference. It will automatically be removed when converting to pdf.

The format property of the md-bib element will say how the element will display its reference. For example format="Hello World" will make all reference have the form of [Hello World]. Within this format you can use a few variables. These are notated in the form of {variableName}. The following can be used within formatting:

• {refnumber}: Will display the reference number of the item
• {authors}: Will show all authors
• {author}: Will try to show only the first author and add et al. if there are more than one.
• {year}: The year when the item was published. For md-bib-url this is the current year.

Reference from doi

<md-bib-doi>${doi}</md-bib-doi> will tell the bibliography to get a reference from the given doi.

Property	Description
id	The citation key of the reference

Example:

<md-bib>
    <md-bib-doi>10.1109/5.771073</md-bib-doi>
</md-bib>

Reference from url

<md-bib-url>${url}</md-bib-url> will tell the bibliography to get a reference from the given url.

Property	Description
id	The citation key of the reference
accessed	The date of when the reference was accessed in the form year-month-day

Example:

<md-bib>
    <md-bib-url>https://github.com/mjwsteenbergen/markender</md-bib-url>
</md-bib>

Properties

Property	Attribute	Description	Type	Default
format	format	How to format the references)	string	"{refnumber}"
src	src	Source of the bibliography (this should be in bibtex format)	string	undefined

md-cover

<md-cover></md-cover> will create a cover page at the place you put it.

Properties

Property	Attribute	Description	Type	Default
author	author	Author of the report	string	undefined
date	date		string	new Date(Date.now()).toDateString()
title	title	Title of the report	string	undefined

md-img

By default any image (![alt](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Markdown-mark.svg/128px-Markdown-mark.svg.png)) is converted to a <md-img></md-img> element.

However, there might be a few cases, where it would be useful to use the element alone.

To change the size of the image add the words: full,medium,small or super-small to change the size of the image like so: <md-img small></md-img>

Collages

Markdown does not contain a specification to have images on the same line. This extension adds this functionality

Example: in markdown:

<ul collage>
    <md-img src='https://images.unsplash.com/reserve/91JuTaUSKaMh2yjB1C4A_IMG_9284.jpg' alt='Picture'></md-img>
    <md-img src='https://images.unsplash.com/reserve/91JuTaUSKaMh2yjB1C4A_IMG_9284.jpg' alt='Picture'></md-img>
    <md-img src='https://images.unsplash.com/reserve/91JuTaUSKaMh2yjB1C4A_IMG_9284.jpg' alt='Picture'></md-img>
</ul>

Properties

Property	Attribute	Description	Type	Default
align	align	How to align the image	string	"center"
alt	alt	Description of the image that is displayed below	string	undefined
rank	rank	The figure number. Do not add. Is added automatically	number	undefined
refId	ref-id	How to reference the figure using the [ref] format	string	"fig:" + this.rank
src	src	Source of the image	string	undefined

md-style

The property name can have the values shown when using the snippet style within markdown. Append the name property with disable_style to disable the style used by vscode and show the text as it will be printed.

margin can have one value (top, bottom, left, right), two ((top, bottom), (left, right)) or four (top, right, bottom, left)

url will get the contents of the stylesheet and set add it to the document. This will also disable the margin property, so if wanted needs to be set in the stylesheet. car

Properties

Property	Attribute	Description	Type	Default
margin	margin	Margin of the printed page	string	"80px 120px"
name	name	The style it should assume	string	undefined
url	url	The url of your personal sheet	string	undefined

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md-toc

<md-toc></md-toc> will create a new chapter and the bibliography.

Properties

Property	Attribute	Description	Type	Default
chapters	chapters	Flag to display chapter numbers before chapters	boolean	true

Extra functionality

Formula's with latex-math syntax can be used by using double dollar signs. For all possibilties look at this resource.

Example:

$$\forall x \in X, \quad \exists y \leq \epsilon$$

Todos can be used by using the following syntax:

 - [ ] Open todo
 - [X] Completed todo

Convert your document to PDF

You can use Markdown Converter to convert your document to pdf!

Make sure to use the following settings to make it very pretty:

    "markdownConverter.Document.HeaderFooterEnabled": false,
    "markdownConverter.Document.Paper.Margin": { "Top": "0", "Bottom": "0", "Left": "0", "Right": "0"}

Change Log

2.0.1

• Fix CI

2.0.0

• Moved from vanilla web components to StencilJS to make adding new features easier
• Fixed md-bib-url snippet
• Show all references by default
• Add bibliography export
• Table of contents
  • Same chapter titles no longer clash
  • Chapter names with weird characters are now correctly linkable
  • Chapters are referencable

1.5.1

• Bug fixes
  • Switch to https when getting bibliography from doi

1.5.0

• Bug fixes
  • Checkbox works again
  • Update vulnerable packages

1.4.0

• Remove command
• Page margins are now set using md-style, until better solution can be found
• md-bib-url now has accessed property
• Rebuilt link-storage for new functionality
  • ordering
  • removing unused references

1.3.0

• Multiple references at once!
• You can now reference anything that BibTex can!
• More options to format your references

1.2.0

• Combine vscode styles and document styles
• Show citation key in bibliography

1.1.0

• Move css to actual css files
• Remove css from ts components
• Improve acm

1.0.1

Improve documentation

1.0.0

Initial Release!