This post is about the recent changes to Textastic.
I’ve been writing with Markdown for many years now. I’ve always had a dedicated Markdown editor (One Markdown at present, Taio in the past) and I’ve had a plain text editor for all those tasks that the Markdown editor can’t do (Textastic and/or Runestone).
Textastic has always been able to process Markdown syntax but there has not been an ability to modify the Markdown preview (add your own CSS). Alexander Blach released Textastic ver. 10.5.2 with a few significant additions. The one that got my interest was:
“Markdown Preview Customisation: You can now add custom HTML to the head of the generated Markdown preview. Save your HTML in Local Files/#Textastic/markdown_head.html, and it will be used for Markdown previews. This can be used to load JavaScript libraries like MathJax or Highlight.js for example”
After some experimentation I found a plain markdown.css file works fine and now Textastic is a viable Markdown editor.
NOTE: This upgrade is only available for the iOS version of Textastic but it works on iPhones and iPads.
I hope this post has been of some interest.
Regards,
Peter