markdown-styles

markdown-styles

CSS stylesheets / themes for Markdown.

Using

Copy the assets folder from the layout you want to use.

To preview the styles in the browser, clone this repo locally and then open ./output/index.html.

Or run:

make preview

which just uses open (on OSX) or xdg-open (on Linux) to open ./output/index.html.

Using via npm

This repo also includes a small tool for generating HTML files from Markdown files.

The console tool is generate-md, e.g.

generate-md --layout jasonm23-foghorn --output ./test/

Here is an example of how I generated the project docs for Radar.

Note how you can override / customize the theme easily since it's just a simple convention of what goes where.

Options:

--layout specifies the layout to use.

Note: the layout can also be a specific file. In this case, that file is used as the template, and if a ./assets/ directory exists in the same location as the layout, it is copied to the output directory. For example:

  generate-md --layout ./layout/page.html --output ./test/

--input specifies the input directory (default: ./input/).

--output specifies the output directory (default: ./output/).

Screenshots

Note: there may be minor differences in the rendering since these screenshots are generated via cutycapt rather than a browser.

jasonm23-dark

jasonm23-foghorn

jasonm23-markdown

jasonm23-swiss

markedapp-byword

mixu-book

mixu-page

mixu-radar

mixu-bootstrap (new!)

mixu-bootstrap-2col (new!)

thomasf-solarizedcssdark

thomasf-solarizedcsslight

Adding new styles

Create a new directory under ./output/themename.

If a file called ./layouts/themename/page.html exists, it is used, otherwise the default footer and header in ./layouts/plain/ are used.

The switcher is an old school frameset, you need to add a link in ./output/menu.html.

To regenerate the pages, you need node:

git clone git://github.com/mixu/markdown-styles.git
npm install
make build

To regenerate the screenshots, you need cutycapt (or some other Webkit to image tool) and imagemagic. On Ubuntu / Debian, that's:

sudo aptitude install cutycapt imagemagick

You also need to install the web fonts locally so that cutycapt will find them, run node font-download.js to get the commands you need to run (basically a series of wget and fc-cache -fv commands).

Finally, run:

make screenshots