Thank you for choosingTypora. This document will help you get started with Typora.
Typora uses the feature:Live Preview, meaning that you can see inline styles as soon as you finish typing them and see block styles as you type or after you press theEnter key to focus on the next paragraph. Just try typing some Markdown in Typora, and you would see how it works.
Note: Markdown tags for inline styles, such as** will be hidden or displayed smartly. Markdown tags for block level styles, such as### or- [x] will be hidden once the block is rendered.
Typora useGitHub Flavored Markdown, For more details, please open theMarkdown Reference.
To see full Markdown Syntax references and extra usage, please checkHelp->Markdown Reference in the menu bar.
For more shortcut keys and custom key bindings, you can referhere.
The quick open panel can be popped up by pressingCommand +Shift +O (on macOS),Ctrl +P (on Windows/Linux) or clicking “Open Quickly” from theFile menu.
You can use fuzzy search to find & open files in the current folder quickly.
You can select a folder in the open file dialog popup fromFile →Open in the menu to open a folder in Typora. Actually, you do not need to open a folder explicitly in this way as when you open a file its parent folder will be automatically loaded. You could check the folder from the “Files Sidebar”, which will be introduced below.
Users can toggle the sidebar using the menubar or from the titlebar on macOS and from the status bar on Windows/Linux.
Typora has two types of sidebar:
In file tree mode, currently only folders and files that are supported by Typora (Markdown file, text file, etc) are displayed.
You can click the “Search” icon in the side panel on macOS or just scroll to the top of the side panel in the Windows/Linux version of Typora to show the global search input. Alternatively, use the hotkeyCommand/Ctrl +Shift +F to open the global search.
Mouse over the windows toolbar and click the outline icon at the top right of the window to open the outline panel. This panel can be pinned to the left side.
Hovering over the windows toolbar with your cursor will also make the word count visible. “Always show word count” can be set from the preference panel. Clicking it will pop up a detailed word count tooltip. If a range of text is selected, the word count for the selection will also be displayed.
We created Typora and want to make it your default Markdown editor, thus copy and paste means copy from another app or paste to another app, instead ofcopy/paste from/to another Markdown editor. Therefore, by default,Copy meansCopy As HTML ( andPaste meansPaste from HTML).
However, after clicking “Copy Markdown source by default”, Typora will copy selected text in HTML/Markdown format. (When pasting, rich editors will accept the HTML format, while plain text / code editors will accept the Markdown source code format).
Tocopy Markdown source code explicitly, please use the shortcut keyShift +Command +C or useCopy as Markdown from the menu. ToCopy as HTML Code, please selectCopy as HTML Code from the menu.
Typora is able to analyze styles of the text content in your clipboard when pasting. For example, after pasting<h1>HEADING</h1> from some HTML, Typora will keep the ‘first level heading’ format instead of pasting ‘heading’ as plain text.
Topaste as Markdown source or plain text, you should usepaste as plain text or use the shortcut keyShift +Command +V.
Please refer toHelp →Custom Themes from the menu bar.
Currently, Typora supports exporting toPDF,HTML,HTML (without styles) and anImage format. More formats (like Word, RTF, etc) are supported viapandoc. Please visit theExport support page for further information.
Please seehttps://support.typora.io/Use-Typora-From-Shell-or-cmd/.
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We opened a Github issue page in case you want to start a discussion or as an alternative way to report bugs/suggestions: https://github.com/typora/typora-issues/issues