{"id":34506,"date":"2021-09-02T16:17:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=34506"},"modified":"2021-09-02T16:17:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:17:56","slug":"apostrophe-markdown-editor-should-try-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-markdown-editor-should-try-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Apostrophe &#8211; An Elegant Markdown Editor You Should Try in Ubuntu Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-icon1200.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-icon250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-icon250.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-icon250-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>For Gnome fans, Apostrophe is a clean and intuitive Markdown editor you should try!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Apostrophe is one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.gnome.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gnome Circle Apps<\/a> that provides a modern and distraction-free writing environment for Linux.<\/p>\n<p>The editor supports for inputting via <i>Pandoc&#8217;s Markdown<\/i>, <i>CommonMark<\/i>, <i>GitHub Flavored Markdown<\/i>, <i>MultiMarkdown<\/i> and <i>Plan Markdown<\/i> formats. <\/p>\n<p>The app has <b>Light<\/b>, <b>Dark<\/b>, and Gray (maybe) UI appearance. The &#8216;Hemingway Mode&#8217; is available which will disable the backspace key. And &#8216;Focus Mode&#8217; will highlight the current line, remove header and bottom bar to provide a <i>zen-like<\/i> environment when writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-dark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-dark-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-dark-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-dark-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-dark-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-dark.jpg 1001w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With inline preview, it formats your text automagically for you. By <b>Ctrl+Clicking<\/b> on anything, it shows popover preview, links, footnotes, equations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-popover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-popover-600x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-popover-600x375.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-popover-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-popover-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-popover.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Live Preview can be set to full window, right \/ bottom part, or a separate window. In bottom right it indicates how many words you wrote. It also counts characters, sentences, paragraphs, and read time.<\/p>\n<p>And you can save you work as PDF, HTML, ODT. An advanced export dialog allows exporting to more formats including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LibreOffice Text Document.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Word(docx).<\/li>\n<li>EPUB v3.<\/li>\n<li>HTML5 Slideshow (reveal.js, DZSlides)<\/li>\n<li>LaTeX (tex)<\/li>\n<li>LaTeX Beamer Slideshow (tex, pdf)<\/li>\n<li>Textile, Texinfo, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-export.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-export-600x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"424\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-export-600x424.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-export-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-export-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/apostrophe-export.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How to Install Apostrophe in Ubuntu Linux:<\/h3>\n<p>The software is available as universal Flatpak package. You can install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04 and higher via following steps:<\/p>\n<p>1.) Open terminal from start menu, and run command to add the Flatpak PPA for <b>Ubuntu 16.04<\/b> and <b>Ubuntu 18.04<\/b>:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flatpak\/stable<\/pre>\n<p>And run <code>sudo apt-get update<\/code> command to update cache afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>2.) Install the Flatpak daemon if you don&#8217;t have it:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak-600x102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"102\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak-600x102.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak-450x77.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-flatpak.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3.) Add Flathub repository (<i>considered official<\/i>) that hosts the package:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https:\/\/flathub.org\/repo\/flathub.flatpakrepo<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal-600x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal-600x100.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal-450x75.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/flathub-focal.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4.) Finally install Apostrophe Markdown editor:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak install flathub org.gnome.gitlab.somas.Apostrophe<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/flatpak-apostrophe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/flatpak-apostrophe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/flatpak-apostrophe.png 598w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/flatpak-apostrophe-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Uninstall:<\/h3>\n<p>To remove the editor as well as your personal app data, run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.gnome.gitlab.somas.Apostrophe<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Gnome fans, Apostrophe is a clean and intuitive Markdown editor you should try! Apostrophe is one of the Gnome Circle Apps that provides a modern and distraction-free writing environment for Linux. The editor supports for inputting via Pandoc&#8217;s Markdown, CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown, MultiMarkdown and Plan Markdown formats. The app has Light, Dark, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-34506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-app-review","tag-editor"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}