iepMarkdownViewer

An IEP Tool that gives a live preview of Markdown text using Github's Markdown styling.

How To Install

• Install Pyzo
• Install the following packages to the Pyzo distro (this can be done inside the editor's shell)
  • Markdown: pip install markdown
  • Linkify Markdown Extension: pip install mdx_linkify
• Download the repository and copy the iepMarkdownViewer folder into your IEP userdata directory
  • Can't find the IEP userdata directory? It's listed under Help > About IEP in the editor

How To Use

• In IEP (that's the IDE that comes with Pyzo), select Tools > Markdown Viewer
• A widget named Markdown Viewer will appear in the IDE.
• Any .md, .markdown, or .txt file selected in the editor will be rendered in real-time (as you type!) in the Markdown Viewer tool
• Clicking external links opens them in your default browser

Why do I need Pyzo? Isn't IEP a separate thing?

It's true that this tool is really for IEP itself. However it needs the whole Pyzo environment to work for the following reasons:

• There's no good way (yet) to import this tools dependencies in stand-alone IEP. Hopefully there will be a way to install tools into IEP in the near future that handles this issue.
• This tool uses QWebKit for all the pretty Github CSS styling, which is not bundled into stand-alone IEP because of its enormous size. If QWebKit is not present, this tool will load in the same non-QWebKit based view that the built-in web browser uses. So this doesn't stop iepMarkdownViewer from working, it just means it's less pretty.