Investigate alternate Markdown parsers?

[arkie]

Missing features:

• Strikethrough (StrikeThrough ~~line through~~ johnxnguyen/Down#267)
• Tables (Markdown tables support johnxnguyen/Down#36)

Requirements:

• General Markdown support (potentially including currently supported but more exotic features, e.g. reference links)
• Rendering to an iOS compatible view (i.e. not requiring an embedded HTML view)

[pramjan]

Can you see if we could make use of the approach taken by FS Notes for Markdown rendering. They have a very complete markdown rendering, with support for tables and many exotic features (mathjax, mermaid, etc), but their zettelkasten support is bad (they have note=linking but it doesn't tell you what the links are!)

Hopefully its not an embedded HTML view, like you said (I'm assuming this would impact the app's performance).

Thanks for opening this issue!

[arkie]

It does look like at least the editing view is built on top of NSAttributedStrings, and the base parsing is through https://github.com/KristopherGBaker/libcmark_gfm.git, so I'll take a deeper look and see if there's a possibility to upgrade the renderer 👍