Apostrophe is a GTK+ based distraction free Markdown editor, mainly developed by Wolf Vollprecht and Manuel Genovés. It uses pandoc as backend for markdown parsing and offers a very clean and sleek user interface.
You can get Apostrophe on Flathub! Get it now
Unofficial builds are also available for some platforms:
- Nix(OS):
pkgs.apostrophe - ArchLinux (AUR)
- Fedora:
sudo dnf install apostrophe
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The easiest methos, just follow this guide, you'll be up and running in one minute.
$ git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/somas/apostrophe/
$ cd apostrophe
$ meson builddir --prefix=/usr
# sudo ninja -C builddir installTo use apostrophe, please make sure you have some dependencies installed:
mesonandninja-buildare required to build and install Apostrophe- Pandoc, the program used to convert Markdown to basically anything else (the package name should be pandoc in most distributions)
- GTK3 and GLib development packages need to be installed: libgtk3-dev libglib2.0-dev`
- webkit2gtk is also needed for the preview panel
- GSpell and GObject-introspection libraries for spell checking:
gobject-introspection libgirepository1.0-dev gir1.2-gspell1 gettext - Please find these packages on your distribution/pip:
python3 python3-regex python3-setuptools python3-levenshtein python3-enchant python3-gi python3-cairo python3-pypandoc - Optional dependencies are
texliveandtexlie-latex-extrafor the pdftex module;libjs-mathjaxfor formula preview.
Depending where you install it you may need to install the schemas before:
# sudo cp data/org.gnome.gitlab.somas.Apostrophe.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.gitlab.somas.Apostrophe.gschema.xml
# sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemasIt's also possible to build, run and debug a flatpak package. You'll need flatpak-builder for this:
$ cd build-aux/flatpak
$ flatpak-builder --force-clean --install --user _build org.gnome.gitlab.somas.Apostrophe.json