LaTeX or Markdown support?

[jessegrosjean]

Thanks for supporting Bike!

@luisal92

I just purchased Bike, and I really like it, but I really wish it could use some type of WYSIWYG for math formulas (like Typora).

There’s some math rendering discussion here: Rendering of math equations - #10 by jonsterling

@luisal92

It would also be nice to be able to handle markdown files.

Maybe someday, but I have no timeline. Some maybe related work:

Draft demos: Copy As Markdown & Save As Markdown

I know that @jesse has thoughts about scripting for later builds of Bike, but as a rough demo of what Bike’s file format already lets us do with standard tools, here are sketches of: Copy As Markdown, and Save As Markdown for the Bike.app preview builds (23 +). See the attached zip for two versions (standalone and Keyboard Maestro) of each draft script. (Both rough and illustrative, rather than intended for production). demo.zip (215.3 KB)

Preview of rendered MD output from a Bike docume…

Blog post: Scientific refereeing using Bike Outliner

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