Simple HTML/MarkDown renderer for TextMeshPro?

I'm looking for something to render very simple HTML (paragraphs, images, links, maybe <pre> and tables) for use in in-game help and news. I'd prefer not to rely on native web view components, since I want it to look/work the same on all platforms, and I'd like it to use TextMeshPro so the text matches everything else in my app.

I found this old asset, but it hasn't been updated in years and most of the links it references are dead. It appears to be based on this code, but from a quick perusal that code is based entirely on OnGUI rather than building UI assets.

If necessary I'll build it myself... TextMeshPro already handles a lot of styling tags already, so it would be mostly a matter of computing layout of the paragraphs, images, and tables, and figuring out how to handle links. But it's hard to believe nobody has made something like that asset in recent times. Any pointers?

EDIT: Thinking about it a bit more, I realize that a simpler markup format (such as some flavor of MarkDown) would work just as well. (Thread title updated accordingly.)

 

I recently wrote a simple markdown renderer for my project. If you or someone else is interested in it let me know

 

im interested

 

Cool! I'm pretty busy right now, but sometime this week or next week I'll clean it up, make a demo and open source it. If I forget to do that please feel free to bug me about it haha

 

Cool! I didn't expect you to reply to a 2 year old post.

 

this post is 8 months old, unless you are from the future?

 

The forum has a 2 dates on each post. I read the join date. lol

 

It does work in both editor and runtime! Thanks for the reminder, I'll release it over the winter break and post here when I do

 

I am also interested. I was googling to see what is out there this morning with plans of writing one if I couldn't find one and found your post!

How fortuitous...

 

Hey folks! I'm sorry it took me so long, but I have open sourced my Unity markdown renderer.

https://github.com/JimmyCushnie/FancyTextRendering


Live demo!

I hope this is useful to someone! Pinging @JoeStrout , @Donutask , @josephan2 and @SpectralEdge since y'all expressed interest in it.

 

What a lifesaver!
Also, do you know why I can't access the MarkdownRenderer component inside a script? I've installed the dependencies you mentioned, and just dragged the FancyTextRendering folder into the project.

 

Thanks @up201806339 , I'm glad you find it useful! All the FancyTextRendering scripts are contained in an assembly definition, so to use them you will need to make sure your code has a reference to that assembly.

In the future if you have issues, I'd appreciate it if you'd open them as issues on the Github repo. Keeping all of them in one place makes it easier for others to search for a solution to their problem.