Madoko – a fast markdown processor for writing professional documents

Why does everything have to run inside a web browser these days? I like my text editors/word processors to be lean, lightweight and focused on one thing: editing text. Everything Madoko offers here (aside from WYSIWYG—which is overrated when you're trying to produce content) can be accomplished with pandoc+your text editor of choice (I've been using classic nvi lately, seems to work well for a distraction free environment and as a bonus is in the base install of OpenBSD).

Previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10165395" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10165395</a><p>The language Madoko has been written in is even more interesting: Koka. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rise4fun.com&#x2F;koka&#x2F;tutorial" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rise4fun.com&#x2F;koka&#x2F;tutorial</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;research&#x2F;project&#x2F;koka&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;research&#x2F;project&#x2F;koka&#x2F;</a>

Madoko is, to me, an absolute win.<p>Markdown for smooth text writing and a beautiful default visual expression combined with ultra-precise control for CSS and pdf visuals makes it a very powerful tool.<p>Examples of what can be made in Madoko:<p>- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;monetary-reform.info" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;monetary-reform.info</a><p>- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;1984.surge.sh" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;1984.surge.sh</a><p>- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kortlink.dk&#x2F;uumf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kortlink.dk&#x2F;uumf</a> (PDF)

The presentation aspect with reveal.js is the most interesting feature to me. I would prefer if there was just a package to do all this in VSCode or Atom, since I could already write and preview markdown there for documents.

This is why I&#x27;m always a bit wary of using Markdown for technical documents, Markdown is just <i>too</i> simple and you end up having to add on all these non-standard extensions to make it halfway usable. Add on to that the fact that Markdown isn&#x27;t formally specified and has a bunch of ambiguities in what is specified, and I just feel like it&#x27;s more trouble than it&#x27;s worth.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m being unfair, this project <i>does</i> look very well done (the LaTeX integration in particular looks much better than most Markdown flavour&#x27;s manage), I just don&#x27;t really see what it improves on over something like AsciiDoc.

So they basically extended MD to do many of the things AsciiDoc does?<p>Though I like the reveal.js editor that looks clean and simple enough. Nowadays the old online editor seems PowerPoint (and that&#x27;s not a compliment).

Hey, this is great. With concurrent editing&#x2F;sharing I would use this to work on collective texts before translating to LaTeX for actual typesetting. Any plans to offer that in the future?

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;koka-lang&#x2F;madoko" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;koka-lang&#x2F;madoko</a>

Sadly the example PDF is down. I wonder if it handles print stuff well. I wrote my thesis in markdown&#x2F;html and bringing it to print was a pain (try to add non trivial page numbering via CSS...).

A video on Madoko from 2015:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;research&#x2F;video&#x2F;madoko-a-scholarly-markdown&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;research&#x2F;video&#x2F;madoko-a-scho...</a>

Nice work but if I have to know LaTeX syntax, why am I not writing in LaTeX?

Recommend Marp if you would like to make presentations using markdown.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yhatt.github.io&#x2F;marp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yhatt.github.io&#x2F;marp&#x2F;</a>

Some of the links on the page are broken. The presentation example is 404 and the HTML example for latex gets redirected to the author&#x27;s profile page.

how can I install this? npm install -g madoko gave me a command line but nothing more, no installation instructions are found yet. would like to try it locally.