One of the frustrating things I’ve found with markdown apps is the lack of flexibility when printing. We need to rely on a theme to control the page width, fonts, font sizes, etc. I love using .md files, but I find I’m always using more paper than I want to print to review something.
Even Bear, while it has typography settings, is for viewing on screen, not for output.
I’m happy to provide any more information or suggestions you need on this.
I would kill to have a separate typography output settings just like what you mentioned for the editor. Man, that would set this app apart.
People mentioned using Marked for print/preview. Have you tried that?
Pretty printing is genuinely hard. You usually don’t care much, except that it’s readable, or you care, and then you need control over the output.
Tools like pandoc do a great job at transforming to e.g. LaTeX or Typst which are designed for that.
That’s overkill for “quickly make a printout of this file” of course.
That’s where your experiences come in with existing tools. What do you abhor? Love? Don’t mind?
I’ll do some research and get back to you. Thank you. And if the answer is I’m an outlier and Marked is the solution (which I’ve never messed with too much, but have it) that’s great!
Especially now, with AI helping write documents, I’m saving more and more in .md and wanting more and more to output something pretty.
In Typora - for example - I’ve overcome this with custom print CSS.
Thanks for listening!