en dash, em dash, ellipsis

[dpo]

I'm wondering how difficult it would be to have those converted to the proper typographical symbols. I know it's possible with pandoc -S and would look much better in PDF and HTML output. Is it possible with the current version of Qute? Is it an option to Showdown? Sorry if this is obvious and I missed it!

[fbreuer]

1. Adding this to Showdown.js should not be too difficult, however I am somewhat reluctant to touch the Showdown.js code as it is a mess of regular expressions.

2. Running pandoc with the option -S is possible, but (right now) only if you edit the code. In your Qute directory edit the file browser_code/inkline.js, look for the function exportLaTeX (or export PDF, if you prefer). In that function edit the line

cCProcess.spawn(exe, ["-f", "markdown", "-t", "latex", "-o", x, filename]);

to add any comand line options to pandoc that you would like to have.

A GUI option to change this would of course be desireable, but is not a priority at the moment.

[dpo]

Thank you. For the moment, it seems easier to create an alias that calls markdown2pdf with the options you want.