The point of markdown is that it is human-readable not only in "rendered" html form, but plain text too.
replyI think this explains the lack of viewers; they are simply not needed.
https://github.com/rabfulton/ViewMD
replyMarkdown viewer for Linux
At this point I really think GitHub should formally publish their flavor as well as a default implementation. It's likely the single most widely used variant online at this point.
replyI know there are others and there are fine points. I would like to see a couple minor additions to support image placement (that aligns with Medium's editor) and finally a strike-through text notation. But that's about it.
Github does publish their spec: https://github.github.com/gfm/ The CommonMark spec is largely based on it.
replyPowerToys had a Markdown renderer for the Preview window added in version 0.16.0, which was released around late March 2020.
replyI used to write documentation in Markdown manually. About a year ago I started using a VSCode extension to tell me if there are minor errors in the documents, but nothing else.
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