markdown-preview-haskell

Convert a markdown file and display in terminal using sixels

Use

stack run [name-of-markdown]

Setup

• stack build to compile program
• stack build --file-watch --exec 'markdown-preview-haskell-exe README.md' to build and hot reload changes
• stack ghci to load and debug single functions

How mark down is converted

• Scan markdown from file
• Convert scanned markdown into latex string
• Output latex string into temporary file
• Run pdflatex program with latex file input to convert to pdf
• run ImageMagic convert to convert pdf into jpeg
• Run chafa to convert to either sixel or kitty

Requirements

• A terminal which supports sixel
• Install chafa for displaying graphics in terminal
• Latex
• Stack
• ImageMagick
• GhostScript