several snippets of useful jq knowledge
Here are some links that helped me to figure out how to take multiple JSON files (that I am going to want to generate from jrnl) and combine them. Because of that, I also needed to make sure that I could remove duplicate (time …
Mermaid - Mermaid is a Diagramming tool for everyone.
It does flowcharts, class diagrams, sequence, state, entity, gantt, and others that seem to be pretty useful.
It seems that there are some VSCode plugins that support this. Markdown Preview Mermain Support is one such. There are others for creating PDF files …
I ran across a situation where I'd like to create a comment in a Markdown document, but didn't know how. So, I looked it up. Here is what I found:
Comments in Markdown - this gives several that could be used, so ...
Using the answer by Magnus, I see these:
[comment …How to export specific data from jrnl to jq md format
#### this needs to be run in cmd-grid to work as intended
md -v jqmdraw -contains "RWS-5760"
#### the actual jrnl command would need to be something like the following
#### with the assumption that you have the other files as well …Various ways to create a PDF from Markdown
The following sections assume that you want to use a script (or within a script) to do the conversion. There are probably other tools out there that can be used at the command-line for doing that as well.
So, if you need …
Found a couple of good links that have some decent information on Markdown (though which flavor is up for grabs):
Here is the json to text conversion, that was part of the view jrnl project, but I couldn't get working for some reason when I tried it.
Anyway, had some time today and decided that I should try it, as it would be very helpful to know how to do …
Work uses Confluence, which has a horrible markup syntax. And, since I try to use Markdown all the time, it would be very convenient if I had some way to convert my document to Confluence.
Markdown to Confluence Converter potential sites/links
Terminal Markdown Viewer (mdv)
I was having some issue with several of the other markdown terminal viewers that I typically use (mdless, mdp, rich-framework, and the like) as they don't really do tables (like rich) and mdless was ok, but ... I wanted more. I'm not sure that …
It seems that if you use a code block (doesn't seem to matter if it's a 'named' block or not (i.e. javascript, bash, etc)), but if you have:
```
---
something here
```
Then, it will mess your Markdown up pretty royally! You have to do something like the following:
```
--- (note blank …Here are some sites that document how to do different things (since I always forget some of them):
All are good and some have things others don't.
Some of the features I tend to want to …
Here is a site that has a maybe marginally useful utility (I'll see after I try it for awhile). mdless: Better Markdown in Terminal.
It is basically only useful for a presentation and you have to learn a different format from Markdown to do what you want. It's not bad and I like it, but it adds another layer on top of your Markdown document. -> mdp <-.