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Sparks of Ora’Kai Sparks Markdown Download

A tool from the Sparks of Ora’Kai workshop

Sparks Markdown

A reader for Markdown files. It typesets a document rather than displaying it, and then stays out of the way.

Free, for Windows. macOS is in preparation.

Download for Windows Sparks of Ora’Kai

The Sparks Markdown mark: a falling spark above a chevron

The reader

Not a photograph. The controls below work — change the theme, copy the code, close the contents.

Sparks Markdown notes.md2 KB · 41 lines

A working note

Markdown is plain text with a little punctuation. The reader takes that punctuation and typesets it, so a note written in a hurry still reads like something made on purpose.

Everything here came from a text file. No styling was stored in it — only meaning.

What changed

  • Headings, quotes and tables, on a measured column
  • A contents rail that follows the reading position
  • Syntax colour for around forty languages
JavaScript
// The reader asks the shell for one document at a time.
async function openPath(path) {
  const document = await invoke("read_document", { path });
  render(document.text);
}
ShortcutDoes
Ctrl+OOpen a document
Ctrl+DLight or dark

A sample document, rendered by the same rules the application uses.

What it does

Markdown is plain text with a little punctuation. Sparks Markdown reads that punctuation and typesets it: headings become headings, code keeps its language and its colour, and the document lands on a measured column that stays comfortable over a long read.

Structure
Headings, tables, quotes, footnotes and task lists, with a contents rail that follows the reading position.
Code
Syntax colour for around forty languages, and a copy control on every block.
Revision
A document changed in another program is reloaded, so the reader can sit open beside an editor.
Privacy
No network access, no telemetry, and no account within the application.

Why it is free

Sparks Markdown was built alongside Sparks of Ora’Kai, for reading the notes, drafts and working documents that a long project produces. It proved useful enough to keep, so it is offered here as it stands.

The application is free and remains so. An account is required only at the point of download, and only so that there is somewhere to say when the next thing is ready.

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Details

PlatformWindows 10 and 11, 64-bit
In preparationmacOS; iPhone and iPad thereafter
Opens.md · .markdown · .mdown · .mkd · .txt
PriceFree
Published bySpectral Colors