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Re:Show HN: TeXMe Demo – Self-Rendering Markdown and LaTeX D... by doersino on Friday November 22, 2019 @05:42AM (#21604454)
Markdeep [1] does something very similar.

(Disclaimer: Not my project, but I've developed several Markdeep-adjacent tools [2][3].)

[1]: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

[2]: https://github.com/doersino/markdeep-slides

[3]: https://github.com/doersino/markdeep-diagram-drafting-board

Re:Show HN: TeXMe Demo – Self-Rendering Markdown and LaTeX D... by dteiml on Friday November 22, 2019 @07:01AM (#21604804)
This looks cool, even cooler than TexMe! Was going to start writing a Project brief today, looks like I'm using Markdeep!
Re:Show HN: TeXMe Demo – Self-Rendering Markdown and LaTeX D... by susam on Saturday November 23, 2019 @06:47AM (#21613653)
Markdeep is a great project and supports a lot of impressive features. TeXMe on the other hand takes a minimalist approach.

There are some fundamental differences between the two tools. For example, in Markdeep, the user input goes into the <body> element whereas in TeXMe the user input goes into the <textarea> element. The choice of <textarea> element was made in TeXMe to make Markdown rendering more robust. Copy-pasting a valid Markdown code into Markdeep may not always render correctly without further editing. By the way, TeXMe also supports content in <body> as an optional feature.

Further, Markdeep does not care about conforming to the CommonMark spec whereas TeXMe does. If you care about CommonMark spec, TeXMe is a good choice. However, if you need additional features like tables, diagrams, etc., Markdeep is a good choice.

For a detailed comparison of the two tools, please see this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18314175.

Re:Show HN: TeXMe Demo – Self-Rendering Markdown and LaTeX D... by masukomi on Saturday November 23, 2019 @09:39AM (#21614290)
wow. thanks for that. It's _really_ impressive.