Writerside is a new technical authoring and publishing environment from JetBrains. It consists of an editor, a static site builder, and a customizable frontend tailored specifically for technical documentation. Created by JetBrains, Writerside is based on the IntelliJ platform.

Writerside uses the flexmark Markdown processor.

Writerside Markdown Support

Writerside provides support for the following Markdown elements.

Element Support Notes
Headings Yes
Paragraphs Yes
Line Breaks No
Bold Yes
Italic Yes
Blockquotes Yes By default, the blockquotes markup will turn into an admonition block called a tip. One can change the block type to note or warning. Read more here: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/writerside/admonition-blocks.html.
Ordered Lists Yes
Unordered Lists Yes
Code Yes
Horizontal Rules No
Links Yes
Images Yes
Tables Yes
Fenced Code Blocks Yes
Syntax Highlighting Yes
Footnotes No
Heading IDs Yes
Definition Lists Yes
Strikethrough Yes
Task Lists No
Emoji (copy and paste) Yes
Emoji (shortcodes) No
Highlight No
Subscript Yes
Superscript Yes
Automatic URL Linking Yes
Disabling Automatic URL Linking Yes
HTML No
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