Typora Quick Start
Welcome
Thank you for choosing Typora. This document will help you to start Typora.
Live Preview
Typora use the feature: Live Preview, meaning that you could see these inline styles after you finish typing, and see block styles when you type or after you press Enter key or focus to another paragraph. Just try to type some markdown in typora, and you would see how it works.
Note: Markdown tags for inline styles, such as ** will be hided or displayed smartly. Markdown tags for block level styles, such as ### or - [x] will be hided once the block is rendered.
Markdown For Typora
Typora is using GitHub Flavored Markdown.
To see full markdown Syntax references and extra usage, please check Help->Markdown Reference in menu bar.
Useful Shortcuts
Writing Assist Key
Esc key will trigger assistant behavior, like open inline preview for inline math, auto-complete for emoji, etc. More behavior will be supported in future.
Actions
- Select word: cmd+D
- Delete word: shift+cmd+D
- Select line/sentence: cmd+L
- Delete line/sentence: shift+cmd+L
- Select row in table: cmd+L
- Add row in table: cmd+Enter
- Select Styled Scope (or cell in a table) cmd+E
- Jump to selection: cmd+J
- Jump to Top: cmd+
- Jump To Bottom: cmd+↓
- Increase/decrease heading level from
to: cmd+-/+ - New line: shift+Return
Styles
Please check the Paragraph and Format menu in menu bar.
Outline
Mouse over the windows toolbar and click the outline icon on the right top of the window can open outline panel. This Panel can be pinned to left side.
Word Count
Mouse over the windows toolbar will make word count visible. "Always show word count" can be set from preference panel. Click it will popup detailed word count tooltip. If a range of text is selected word count for selection will also be displayed on word count tooltip.
Quick Open
Currently Typora only provides a simple "Quick Open" function. Recent opened files, files from same folder or context folder (like a git repository) will be include in quick open file list. This features replies on OS X Spotlight to work correctly.
Copy
We create 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 of copy/paste from/to another markdown editor. Therefore, by default, Copy means Copy As HTML ( and Paste means Paste from HTML).
However, after click "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 editor will accept the markdown source code format).
To copy Markdown source code explicitly, please use shortcut key shift+cmd+c or copy as Markdown from menu. To copy as HTML code, please select Copy As HTML Code from menu.
Smart Paste
Typora is able to analyze styles of the text content in your clipboard when pasting. For example, after pasting a HEADING
To paste as markdown source or plain text, you should use paste as plain text or press the shortcut key: shift+cmd+v.
Themes
Typora use CSS for makeup. All themes are stored in /Library/Application Support/abnerworks.Typora/themes/ ( Now you would be able to open it from Preference Panel) . You could copy a theme css and modify it and then put the file under that folder. Only lowercase and - symbol is allowed for css file name.
Modify default css files are not recommended since they might be overwrite after version up. If there’s major change on base css or html layout which may lead to custom css not work, old css files maybe remove, yet a backup copy will be put to old-themes folder.
To use Inspect Element to debug CSS, please check Help -> Enable Debugging in menu bar, use click Inspect Element in context menu.
By default, typora will use font size pre-defined in css file, to customize base font size, please open preference panel.
Publish
Currently Typora only support to export as PDF or HTML. More data format support as import/export will be integrated in future.
And More ?
For more questions or feedbacks, please contact us by:
- Home Page: http://typora.io
- Email: [email protected]
- Twitter @typora
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