"LaTeX sucks - markdown too."

• some person

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This is just another markdown editor for the browser.

It has some features that might make it interesting though:

features

• read/write on file system
  • documents are read/written directly on the servers filesystem, which makes their use in other applications really easy
  • this also means that this application does not scale well, and is intended for single- (or few-) user scenarios only
• create documents from templates
• insert custom text snippets
• proper editor with syntax highlighting, undo, autoindent, drag/drop & shortcuts
• exports through pandoc integration
  • directly convert & download documents using pandoc.
  • technically all pandoc supported formats can be used, currently implemented are PDF, HTML5, DOCX, LaTeX, reveal.js, MediaWiki, DokuWiki
• http auth for private access. authentication may be restricted to the save functionality for public read-access
• mailto link for the current document
• view mode, which hides the editor for a pure presentation of the document

dependencies

• nodejs >=v0.10
• pandoc >=v1.12
• texlive or some other TeX distro for PDF export

install

1. install the above dependencies. On Debian based distros run

    curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
    sudo apt-get install nodejs pandoc texlive
   

2. clone this repo & install npm & bower dependencies

    git clone https://github.com/fs-geofs/Protokollfix.git
    cd Protokollfix
    npm install
   

If npm reports issues installing bower globally, change the path to global npm packages to a directory you have write access to, which is a good idea anyway. Alternatively install bower with sudo (sudo npm install -g bower) & run bower install manually.

run

Check ./config.js and make changes if needed, then run

npm start

By default the server will listen on http://localhost:8080.

For debug output you may run npm test.

license

GPL-3.0

Used software packages are licensed under their own terms.

TODO

• sync scroll in both views via scroll map
• cache for files & templates? https://www.npmjs.com/package/lru-cache