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