Markdown support

[osmsnbey]

As a technical savy user i want to write my entries using markdown so that i can use postprocessing easier.

Postprocessing is for example converting whole journal entries (single or from x to y range) into pdf or html documents.
Also using markdown (including extensions like mermaid, katex and so on) it should be possible to generate very powerful documentation.

[jendrikseipp]

I agree that it would be nice to have Markdown support. If you or anybody else would like to work on this, please get in touch.

[pdelrot-samea]

Hello,
Markdown would certainely be appreciated, for me, I switched to asciidoc format few months ago.
Asciidoc format support may be added too !
https://asciidoc.org/
EDIT : sorry duplicate, see #497
Pascal

[jagercode]

YES, please!

maybe of any use:
https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2 if preview is rendering html.
http://cyberpython.github.io/markdown_viewer/
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-webenginewidgets-markdowneditor-example.html if a port to PySide2 is feasible.

[biffster]

Add me as a +1 for Markdown support. txt2tags is too limiting, at least in the way my brain works.

[rogercreagh]

Markdown will be pretty essential for exchanging information through CalDav with other applications. I guess you will need to add at FMTTYPE parameter in the file for the metadata about what type of encoding is in use for the entry - text/markdown text/html etc.