less-style markdown viewer for UNIX systems

Question

I have a Markdown string in JavaScript, and I\'d like to display it (with bolding, etc) in a less (or, I suppose, more)-style viewer for the comman

Answer 1

Using OSX I prefer to use this command

brew install pandoc
pandoc -s -f markdown -t man README.md | groff -T utf8 -man | less

Convert markupm, format document with groff, and pipe into less

credit: http://blog.metamatt.com/blog/2013/01/09/previewing-markdown-files-from-the-terminal/