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Coloured Text

A topic by Pixelevator created Jan 06, 2023 Views: 430 Replies: 5
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Using 0.37.1 on Windows 11.

Just wondering, am I blind or something? I can't see any information on how text can be changed to different colours for different words/paragraphs. The online documentation is a bit thin.

The demo document has different colours everywhere, it's like rainbow road. In fact, the image of that text is one of the main things that made me purchase the program.

Are you familiar with Markdown as a format, generally?

No, not really. Only what I've ready in the documentation. 

I'm guessing there's a general language here I'm missing and need to learn?

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I think so.

Markdown is a convention for creating formatted text from plain text documents. It’s meant to be easy to read, and easy to write, in plain text, without any rich text formatting at all.

It supports some basic formatting you may be familiar with from other word processors, like bold text, italic, headings with different levels, nested lists, links, etc. Color is generally not on this list (with some caveats).

In general, this formatting takes place when your written document is converted to HTML (or PDF or what have you).

Some versions of markdown support additional features, like code blocks, tables, footnotes, checklists, definition lists, superscript/subscript etc.

Deepdwn is a markdown editor. It supports a fairly broad set of markdown and markdown extensions.

There are a lot of places where text will be displayed in a different color in Deepdwn in the editor: Headings are displayed in your selected accent color, code blocks use different colors to highlight elements based on code syntax, nested lists use different colors for indentation level, links use a separate color for the text and URL components.

This is what you’re seeing in the demo document in general: color being used to accent or highlight the differences between markdown elements for readability, rather than color being added for its own sake.

You might also check out https://www.markdownguide.org, which does a better job than I have describing markdown and its uses.

I hope that helps!

In the preview window, or when exporting to PDF, most of these colors will not appear in the output document.

You might check out https://www.markdownguide.org/ which has more information that might be helpful.

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This is actually pretty fascinating. For me the colours are more of a visual feedback thing so I don't mind if they change on their own.

Loving the program so far, best I've come across for organizing documents, scripts etc. I never realized I could create notations and other types of format just with regular text!

That’s great to hear! Thanks for giving Deepdwn a try :)