less-style markdown viewer for UNIX systems

Question

I have a Markdown string in JavaScript, and I\'d like to display it (with bolding, etc) in a less (or, I suppose, more)-style viewer for the comman

Answer 1

I'll post my unix page answer here, too:

An IMHO heavily underestimated command line markdown viewer is the markdown-cli.

Installation

npm install markdown-cli --global

Usage

markdown-cli 

Features

Probably not noticed much, because it misses any documentation...
But as far as I could figure out by some example markdown files, some things that convinced me:

• handles ill formatted files much better (similarly to atom, github, etc.; eg. when blank lines are missing before lists)
• more stable with formatting in headers or lists (bold text in lists breaks sublists in some other viewers)
• proper table formatting
• syntax highlightning
• resolves footnote links to show the link instead of the footnote number (not everyone might want this)

Screenshot

Drawbacks

I have realized the following issues

• code blocks are flattened (all leading spaces disappear)
• two blank lines appear before lists