On occasion, I’ll have to work with markdown files, sometimes with inline LaTeX. I’m surprised how limited my options are, or I’m looking in the wrong places. Pandoc does the job, but the lack of a integrated graphical workflow isn’t my cup of tea.
Has anyone found a good graphical markdown editor that can handle inline LaTeX and doesn’t pull a gigabyte of dependencies? Preferably also can render the final output to PDF.
Zettlr! Its designed around writing manuscripts in markdown+latex, then exporting to pure LaTeX, PDF, or any other Pandoc-supported format via a builtin Pandoc GUI. The only thing that doesn’t work particularly well is the table editor, but they’re working on it.
It is electron based, but almost all graphical editors for markdown + inline latex are (obsidian, etc.) because MathJax & KaTeX are the most mature method to render LaTeX inside other document formats.
Obsidian is also good, but it’s not FOSS and their built-in export isn’t great.