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Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

#11
For me, the speed of rendering is fantastic.

But, the TexRoman font, the lack of lockstep scrolling, and the non-compartmental MathJax rendering causing the entire document to flick-around when making any edits makes this non-feasible for documents > 1 page. I'm also a sucker that needs inline sequence diagrams for my documents.

For now, for me, hackmd.io is king... but, maybe that will change.

Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

#12
For me, the most satisfying markdown editor is Typora(https://typora.io/), which doesn't need a separate preview pane to show the rendered contents. But I haven't tried the Math support of it yet.

After using Typora for a long time, I really don't think a separate preview is that necessary.

Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

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post #12

For me, the most satisfying markdown editor is Typora( https://typora.io/ ), which doesn't need a separate preview pane to show the rendered contents. But I haven't tried the Math support of it yet. After using Typora for a long time, I really don't think a separate preview is that necessary.

I wholeheartedly agree, Typora is my favourite markdown editor. For those few times you really need to just edit the markdown you can quickly turn off rendering and switch into source mode by hitting cmd-/.

Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

#16
One text editor I have always wanted is a word processor with first class vim keybindings support. I don't need too many fanciful features but the most important features would be proper text reflowing and vim integration. Vim doesn't do too well with reflowing text when a hard margin is set, nor when there a single digital line is stretched across several visual lines. Vim by default would treat it as a single digital line and it makes navigating really difficult as cursors would jump across the screen.

Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

#17
post #9

I'm so glad it uses Computer Modern, and supports \align environments etc. I know the latter is just MathJax, but Computer Modern is a detail that every other Markdown/LaTeX mix has forgetten, and it shows.

Funnily the math it renders doesn’t use Computer Modern at all.

Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

#18
post #12

For me, the most satisfying markdown editor is Typora( https://typora.io/ ), which doesn't need a separate preview pane to show the rendered contents. But I haven't tried the Math support of it yet. After using Typora for a long time, I really don't think a separate preview is that necessary.

Agreed, Typora has this nailed. Separate edit/preview panes seem clunky by comparison now.

Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

#19

One text editor I have always wanted is a word processor with first class vim keybindings support. I don't need too many fanciful features but the most important features would be proper text reflowing and vim integration. Vim doesn't do too well with reflowing text when a hard margin is set, nor when there a single digital line is stretched across several visual lines. Vim by default would treat it as a single digit…

I had the same problem and I added the following lines to my vimrc to fix the movement issues.

noremap j gj

noremap k gk

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Move_cursor_by_display_lines_when_...

Re: Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown)

#20
post #12

For me, the most satisfying markdown editor is Typora( https://typora.io/ ), which doesn't need a separate preview pane to show the rendered contents. But I haven't tried the Math support of it yet. After using Typora for a long time, I really don't think a separate preview is that necessary.

I liked Typora but I ran into issues with cursor placement in complex LaTeX blocks. Do you know if they've been fixed?
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