On: “Typesetting Markdown” blog post series by a technical writer

[thangalin]

I wrote an editor (based on the aforementioned architecture diagram) that makes the integration of interpolated variables much simpler than what the blog describes:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/scrivenvar/

Here's the money shot:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/scrivenvar/mast...

Variables are visible on the leftmost panel. You can insert a variable by typing in any partial value followed by pressing Ctrl+Space (two steps instead of over a dozen). The editor inserts the variable name and the preview panel updates accordingly.

That definitely isn't clear from the blog post, though.

Aside, can Word perform string interpolation on variables?

[captn3m0 → thangalin]

I've used a mishmash of Liquid/Jekyll and Pandoc to achieve this in the past - but this approach looks nice, thanks for sharing.