Many of the Addons developed in the GitHub repositories include readme.md markdown files. A tool that leveraged these markdown files would give a system that allows documentation to in sync WITH the add-ons Could a viewer gramplet or quickview for the GitHub dialect of markdown be created? Then th…

There are a couple other related threads: [image] Markdown report? Help Is there a Gramps report that produces markdown? Or an xsl which could be used to convert the xml from Gramps to MD? I am trying Obsidian recommended by @StoltHD and I would like to see a graph outpu…

When I google this, I see several Python markdown viewers that translate markdown files to HTML, and then either call a browser to display that, or use WebKit for that. Does that help? I remember seeing some old code for a simple Python based HTML editor that used WebKit, and reading that WebKit ma…

An HTML conversion might be a shortcut. There’s already a Gramps HTML viewer that was a precursor to the Geography view.

OK, nice. Please forget what I wrote about WebKit, because that’s old code for Python 2 only. Without further testing, I think that this might be a good choice: [image] GitHub - Python-Markdown/markdown: A Python implementation of John Gruber’s... A Python implementation of John Gruber…

@Nick-Hall is doing a 2nd generation Addon Manager for the 5.2 release. One of the things it will include is expanding help_url in the Gramps Plugin Registration to all plugins, not just Gramplets. This will allow building a addon-list that includes the a pointer to the documentation and offering us…

It seems like there should be a better way to document Addons and Tutorials in Gramps. So here are some screenshots of functional wish-coded Dashboard Gramplets that might be an alternative. The Markdown Dash renders GitHub-style markdown in a Gramplet on the Dashboard. It only supports a subset o…

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emyoulation October 17, 2022, 4:27pm 2

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Markdown viewer (no editing) addon

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