ThiefMD Export Styles

Want more control over the live preview and export options? Then creating an export style package is the way to go.

It sounds complicated, but it’s just a ZIP file with at least 1 CSS file in it. You can find some samples at https://themes.thiefmd.com/export-css.

Export Package Contents

The zip file can contain:

• print.css
• preview.css

Print.css

Will be used for PDF export. There’s no need to use @media print, ThiefMD will insert and format the CSS for you. This will also allow ThiefMD to render a preview as accurately as it can.

Preview.css

Preview.css specifies the CSS to use for ePUB export and the Live Preview.

Minimum CSS

This is an example of styling all the possible standard Markdown elements.

You can use the same CSS for both the print.css and preview.css.

html {
  font-size: 16px;
}

body {
  color: #000;
  font-family: serif;
  margin: 0;
  max-width: 100%;
}

h1 {
  font-size: 4rem;
}

h2 {
  font-size: 3rem;
}

h3 {
  font-size: 2rem;
}

h4 {
  font-size: 1.5rem;
}

h5 {
  font-size: 1.2rem;
}

h6 {
  font-size: 1rem;
}

small {
  font-size: .75em;
}

p {
  font-size: 1rem;
}

blockquote p {
  font-style: italic;
  margin: 1rem auto 1rem;
}

pre,
code {
  font-family: monospace;
}

pre {
  line-height: 1.25;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

Adding Page breaks

By default, ThiefMD allows users to configure page breaks in the Preferences (Ctrl+,). This allows for the user to control some formatting without modifying CSS, but doesn’t provide much power. If # Heading 1 means a new Chapter on a new Page for you, you could add to your CSS:

h1 {
  page-break-before: always;
}

This will result in # Heading 1 to always start a new page.

If you always want code to be on it’s own sample page, you could similarly do:

code {
  page-break-before: always;
  page-break-after: always;
}