After launching the app, no extension is installed in Library/Extensions, so quick-looking an md file does not use QLMarkdown for rendering.

Running Big Sur 11.1 on a 2014 MBP.

The about window does not comply with the GNU General Public License v3.0 license.

Copyright © 2020 SBAREX. All rights reserved.

Every release that is pushed, running QLMarkdown.app does not trigger an auto-update. I have to manually go to the QLMarkdown menu and select 'Check for Updates'. Can we add the new version notification popup dialog to Sparkle here?

QLmarkdown 1.0 (21)

Model Identifier: MacBookPro13,3
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2,7 GHz
Memory: 16 GB
SSD disk.

There is 1- 1.5 second delay for this README.md; https://github.com/mazznoer/colorgrad

Version 1.0 (9)
The line numbers and the css I choose, are reset. the program seems to have no memory. (Only in GUI)

Hello,

I just wanted to point out that definition lists don't seem to be rendered, was wondering if this was a bug or just not included. If it isn't included, can it be ?

term1
: definition of term1

term2
: definition of term2

Thank you for the wonderful extension, this is super useful !

1. git clone https://github.com/aogilvie/markdownLinkTest
2. preview with quicklook
3. click titles in README.md

Header anchors are working on native quick view html preview.

https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown/releases/tag/1.0.6

got a notification from the app that 1.0.6 was available, but failed to download... when I came here to check, I see the source was released but no zip file in the assets. Was there a problem with the build process? Just checking 🙏

On two Catalina machines, after the b21 update (or perhaps the b20 update as well, not sure) the system refuses to allow the quicklook component to run.

Then right-click the app and select "Open":

Then try to quicklook a .md file in Finder:

Hello,

You kindly ask to report such new entry, so, here it is : on Monterey, it looks like the

mdls -name kMDItemContentType PATH_OF_AN_EXISTS_MD_FILE

is giving a new beast

kMDItemContentType = "public.markdown"

which, maybe, explains why, on my MacBook Pro (M1 Max), your so appreciated QuickLook extension is not working anymore.

The changes are reflected even without a Finder restart but it takes more time. It was nearly one minute on my machine at one point. But like @sbarex said some caching issues. Maybe there is a way to tell macOS to force prune the cache?

Originally posted by @relikd in #3 (comment)

Rendering Result in QLMarkdown vs. Macdown

Reproduction

• Create a `.md? file
• In the markdown source embed an image with ![](file name having whitespace.png)
  • That is a relative link to an image file on the same hierarchy as the markdown file with whitespace in the file name.
• Anywhere image placement is allowed, i.e. in the body or in a table.

Sample

## Images

### Filename without whitespace

![](1.png)

### Filename with whitespace

![](1 b.png)

## Table

| Column One     | Column Two    |
| :---           | :---          |
| Text 1         | Text 2        |
| ![](1.png)     | ![](1 b.png)  |
| ![](1.png)     | ![](1.png)    |
| ![](1 b.png)   | ![](1 b.png)  |

Expected

• The image thumbnail/preview is shown regardless if the filename contains whitespace or not.
  • Everything between the round brackets is considered the filepath.
  • Round brackets in filenames need escaping of course.
  • Whitespace is escaped by the system automatically
  • If it does not start with a slash it is considered a relative path.
• Macdown handles it like that.

Actual

• Images containing whitespace in their filename are skipped and instead the raw markup text is shown.

Hello,

Would it be possible to have an option to render the YAML header part as a table, maybe separated with a horizontal rule (line) ? Or maybe you can come up with even better :D

E.g.:

YAML header:

Title: My Title
Author: Steve jobs
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Abstract: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Quisque id diam vel quam elementum pulvinar. Orci nulla pellentesque dignissim enim. Magna fringilla urna porttitor rhoncus dolor purus. Mollis nunc sed id semper risus in hendrerit gravida rutrum."

Becomes (equivalent markdown rendering):

|||
|-|-|
**Title** | My Title
**Author** | Steve jobs
**Date** | Tuesday, March 23, 2021
**Abstract** | "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Quisque id diam vel quam elementum pulvinar. Orci nulla pellentesque dignissim enim. Magna fringilla urna porttitor rhoncus dolor purus. Mollis nunc sed id semper risus in hendrerit gravida rutrum."

Renders as:

I feel this is much more readable. Thank you so much for your extension !

[minor cosmetic issue]

In a possibly ironic twist, the [^footnote] marks in the README.md file don't render in the browser as jump links and just appear as plain text on the GitHub repo page displaying the README file.

I'm guessing this is a markdown feature not supported by GitHub.

Content of document

Rendered in Typora

In Quicklook

The task list looks like an ordinary list.

ul.contains-task-list class not defined in output html file. It cannot be manipulated with css. other lists will be affected.

markdown.css

.markdown-body ul.contains-task-list {
  list-style: none;
  padding-left: 0;
}

Inline local images doesn't work in the trash folder. (Trash window)

Github Release - > 1.0b21
About window -> 1.0 (21)
Finder info dialog -> 1.0
You're up to date - > 1.0

Also these files do not have a version number.

It should be that way.
QLMarkdown.1.0b21.zip

QLMarkdown - Version 1.0 (19)
similar error #5.

There was an error in the org.sparex.QLMarkdown.QLExtension extension while previewing the document.

reproduction;

1. git clone https://github.com/mazznoer/colorgrad
2. preview colorgrad/README.md

scroll bar does not work. it moves the window instead of scrolling the page.

Wonderful Quick Look extension; thank you for creating it!

It would be great if YAML blocks would also be rendered as a code block for regular (.md suffix) Markdown, not just .rmd.

Thank you for looking into this.

Clicking on the “Olive” theme can reproducibly crash the application.

Crashing on exception: -[__SwiftValue _getValue:forType:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x6000025c0cf0

I know, Github's README.MD does not support inline SVG , WebP and videos. Maybe features specific to macOS can be considered.

The Quick Look HTML preview supports the following;

• SVG
• WebP (Animated and Static)
• Placeholder Video Thumbnail

QLMarkdown cannot display the following;

Inline HTML

• WebP (Animated and Static) - <img src="image.webp" alt="">
• Placeholder Video Thumbnail - <source src="video.mov" type="video/mp4">

Markdown

• SVG - ![SVG](image.svg)
• WebP - ![WEBP](image.webp)

Note: Embedded webp is not displayed. <img src="data:image/webp;base64........

Only when viewing in full screen. I am experiencing heavy freezes when scrolling two fingers. this only happens in .md preview with qlmarkdown.

1. View a long markdown file in full screen and swipe with your finger.
2. Click on the table of contents, it jumps with a few seconds delay.

For this reason I could not test other settings. #25. Also "open on default browser" doesn't work.

The document font is set to -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji;.

In this way some emoji are rendered with system font and not the apple color. For example the heart.

Two solutions:

• encapusulte the emoji inside a <span class="emoji">❤</span> and customize the font for the class in the CSS
• change the document font to 'Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif'. In this way I do not know if the are others unwanted effects.

@hazarek what do you think?

Hello again,

Would it be possible to add an option to render admonitions?

!!! question Can you make the best Quicklook markdown previewed ever ?
    YES !

Here's examples of how to render them nicely:

• Mkdocs-material-insiders > Usage
• Mkdocs-material-insiders > Supported Types

If you're really up for the challenge, there's ALOT of insanely great features and beautiful rendering ideas that could be integrated into this previewer: MkDocs Material Design > Reference

qlmanage -m shows nothing for markdown files. If I ql them, they just appear as plain text.

MacOS 10.15.7
qlMarkdown 1 b22

I think it happened because the application name changed.

v 1.0 (14)
CRASH - Download and try this file, copy-paste into QLMarkdown window -> https://github.com/ikatyang/emoji-cheat-sheet/blob/master/README.md or https://gist.github.com/rxaviers/7360908

my setings;

translation: There was an error in the org.sparex.QLMarkdown.QLExtension extension while previewing the document.

reproduction;

1. git clone https://github.com/hazarek/go-md-turkce-kaynaklar
2. preview go-md-turkce-kaynaklar/go-programlama-dili/02-bolum-1-on-egitim.md

I often use the Spotlight window to copy text to the clipboard. I can use clipboard for TXT, CSV files. but in QLMarkdown preview I can only copy the file path. (Press TAB key to open preview during Spotlight search.)

TXT example

MD example

1. Factory reset option for reset all settings.
2. Line numbers should be turned off by default. does not fit the default theme. ( Github style )
3. The editor on the left should use a monospace font by default. (Menlo)

Hi there, I wonder why this is not release on the mac store, I was using https://apps.apple.com/us/app/previewmarkdown/id1492280469?mt=12 and it has just 5% of what QLMarkdown provide.

Please consider providing an easy access for mac user in exchange for some financial tokens like 2.99$.

Best of luck

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Per the installation instructions, this is a new UTI.

Macbook Pro 14-inch
MacOs Monterey 12.0.1

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@sbarex

• thanks for providing a contemporary fork of the original QLMarkdown.
• Installation via brew was super convenient (on macOS 11.6 Big Sur)
• QuickLook of .md Markdown files worked instantly after having opened /Applications/QLMarkdown.app for the first time.

👍 And you fixed something which did not work in the old QLMarkdown:

Bug of the original

Fixed in your fork — Nice!

Just to mention that it isn't enough to have this selected:

View -> Show Preview Options -> Show Quick Actions

you also need:

View -> Show View Options -> Show preview column

could be added somewhere to the excellent readme file.

I don't know if this issue is related to QLMarkdown or a third party code syntax parser. But a text element in a path that contains a dash will be shown as if it were a command parameter. Even though there is no whitespace before.

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2

3

I noticed that the application is named QLMardown instead of QLMarkdown. Is that intentional?

Hi, thank you for making this! This is great. Wikilinks are common in all of the markdown tools that I use, so I was wondering if we could get syntax highlighting for that?

Here's how it renders in my application of choice, Obsidian

I cannot scroll using my mouse on the preview generated from QLMarkdown using my external mouse. Other previews work fine (PDFs, TXT, RTF,...)

Useful information

• OS: BigSur 11.3.1
• Mouse: Razer, no additional software
• QLMarkdown 1.0
• Trackpad seems fine, but mouse input gets ignored and freezes app

Crash report form console.app

Markdown QL Extension_2021-05-23-210845_MacBook-Pro.txt

qlmanage -m report

QLmanageDump.txt

PS: I think SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight has this same bug, but console.app doesn't report anything

Title is a bit misleading, not all of them are broken but some. Presumably due to the handling of special characters.

link to [section](#a-preamble)

### A) Preamble
...

Github is removing special characters before creating the title reflink label. In the case above the closing parenthesis. Though I don't know what the set of special characters is. But the example above does work on Github – just not in the preview.

This is on MacOS 12.0 beta, so I'm only adding it because I don't see it listed yet:

When quicklooking files, the Markdown QL Extension Web Content process is launched, once for every file viewed, but those processes never close.

Although they do not appear to be using CPU each process is eating about 10MB of RAM. Today after doing a bunch of file maintenance I realized QLMarkdown was using 700+ MB of RAM

Syntax highlighting in an .Rmd file only works for me if the fenced code block starts with

 ```r

whereas it should work if the fenced code block starts with

```{r}