Export Notebooks in Markdown Format

I have two competing goals. First, I want to capture content to notebooks without having to worry about formatting as I go. Secondly, I want to share notebooks that contain images as "publication-ready" reports for my colleagues who do not have Igor Pro.

* Notebooks can be exported as text or rtf. Images are lost in these formats.

* Notebooks can be exported as html. When the notebook has images, this is not one self-contained file.

* Notebooks can be printed->saved as PDF. When the notebook has content that has been saved solely as text (i.e. unless I go back and format that text), the output is ... dirty ... it is not "publication ready".

I am finding that Markdown text with embedded images offers the best of both worlds. I can type in text and have the formatting applied later.

A logbook package that I will post sometime soon is storing content to a notebook as basic markdown format.

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I would like to have support in Igor Pro to save notebooks in markdown format.

Do you have a link for a markdown file with a contained image? I've never seen that.

Why not just enhance the HTML output to embed the image data?

In reply to by thomas_braun

thomas_braun wrote:

Do you have a link for a markdown file with a contained image? I've never seen that.

Why not just enhance the HTML output to embed the image data?

OK. I see that I was wrong here. Markdown does not embed images. It references them in folders.

I'm thinking that I will tackle this through other approaches.