KParts plugin markdownpart 0.1.0 released

Friedrich W. H. Kossebau kossebau at kde.org
Sat Aug 15 16:18:04 BST 2020


Hi,

NOTE: Qt 5.15-only for now, Qt 5.14 possible if wanted

the initial release of markdownpart is here. It is a(nother) Markdown viewer 
KParts plugin, which allows KParts-using applications to display files in 
Markdown format in the rendered target format.
Examples are Ark, Krusader, Kate's preview plugin & Konqueror.
See it being used with Kate's preview plugin here:
https://cdn.kde.org/screenshots/markdownpart/markdownpart.png

The software is mainly a wrapper around the classes QTextDocument and 
QTextBrowser from Qt's QWidgets library. The Markdown support is thus 
completely driven by the abilities of those classes.

markdownpart is an alternative to the KParts plugin from KMarkdownWebView, 
which uses a QWeb* backend, with all the implications of big dependencies, 
runtime costs and potential security risks.
Both KParts plugins can be installed in parallel, the user can choose at 
runtime what they prefer (another alternative is the Okular KParts plugin with 
Markdown support, which though is different in providing fixed paged display 
due to Okular's architecture instead of a single adaptive view, where the 
latter is preferred usually for the use-cases).

See also
https://invent.kde.org/utilities/markdownpart/-/blob/master/README.md

Download from:
    https://download.kde.org/stable/markdownpart/0.1.0/src/

sha256:
    29831a64548444559740bcff230c4093fbc79155be8ce6af2994f619eb7c7cc3
    markdownpart-0.1.0.tar.xz

Signed with PGP key:
    0A48 BC96 1075 B4BA 8523 E379 0A34 5FB0 86E7 97D9
    Get from https://share.kde.org/s/8dKaJTw8pR8iiwJ
    markdownpart-0.1.0.tar.xz.sig

Cheers
Friedrich




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