Pragmatic Markdown

Markdown as a first class citizen

In Chorochronos, Markdown is a first class citizen: it is one of the basic data types available. You can type Markdown and get nicely formatted text within your screens, even with tables or code blocks.

Custom Markdown rendering in Swift UI

Chorochronos has its own rendering for Markdown. The reason was simple. There were some features I really wanted, not available in the well known libraries.

Horizontal scrolling for tables
Color themes (e.g. for astronomy)
Easy to select elements on mobile devices

So, I wrote my own Markdown renderer to do exactly this. But since it was obvious this would be useful outside Chorochronos, I made it a library, easy to reuse in other applications.

It quickly became my favorite way to view Markdown files. So I created a standalone application for this.

What do you mean "pragmatic"?

Pragmatic means I have not tried to implement the 600 pages of the Commonmark specification. I find it silly that there is a spec for Markdown which is more than 5 pages. It means the 10% of markdown you need 90% of the time.