Highlight & preview/CSS questions

DEVONthink
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Hi. Have few questions after searching online:

  1. Only way to highlight selected text in Markdown document is via … ? No other syntax?
  2. Preview/CSS format: where do I store CSS files? Can’t find ~/Library/Application Support/DEVONthink 3/StyleSheets, or are we supposed to create that folder?
  3. Any depository site I can go to find CSS that work on DEVONthink?

Thanks.

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  1. Most markdown implementations have not way to highlight text. Luckly, DT3 uses Multimarkdown so can use critic markup: {==highlighted text==}.

  2. Anywhere you want. Just head over to Preferences > Media > Stylesheet and select the file you want to use.

  3. Again, pretty much any standard CSS for HTML will work. Example.

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@Bernardo_V, thanks for the quick reply!

Ahh, strange syntax {==highlighted text==} for highlighting. Probably will stick to … in case want to use markdown documents in other MD app.

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strange syntax {==highlighted text==} for highlighting

That is CriticMarkup syntax.

Probably will stick to …

Can you clarify this?

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Just noticed portion of previous replies didn’t show up, needed block code:
<mark> </mark>

I was referring the syntax above which seem to work when tried in iA Writer too.

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Ahh… yes. HTML markup is still workable and can be used in any HTML compliant app.

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I was trying :: (bear) and == (iA writer) syntax trying to highlight but didn’t work. Seems like HTML syntax works best since it’s more portable. But it’s nice to know DEVONthink supports CriticMarkup as well :ok_hand:

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It’s cool that DTG supports CriticMarkup syntax. But the Editor couldn’t support the result like that picture of the attachment.

Is it on roadmap？:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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There are no current plans for syntax highlighting in the source of Markdown.

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