#MOU VS MACDOWN SOFTWARE#

I render your Markdown contents real-time into HTML, and display them in a preview panel. MacDown is created as a simple-to-use editor for Markdown documents. The original Markdown syntax specification can be found here. Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber, aiming to provide a easy-to-read and feasible markup. Hello there! I’m MacDown, the open source Markdown editor for OS X. I will continue to improve it in the future.

You can see there are still issues, some of them require additional implementation at this side, and others are caused by bugs in MacDown and Hoedown. I’ve attached MacDown’s help.md file as a post so that you can get an idea how compatible this thing is currently.

I am fairly satisfied with the current result, and might talk more about it in detail in the future, given the time. I also decided to build the functionality myself instead of using an existing service/library, hoping to provide some ideas if somebody wish to make his/her own blogging/CMS platform compatible with MacDown. This way I can talk about topics on MacDown and Markdown-related things in general, in English, at a dedicated space. So, I decided that MacDown should have a blog. I haven’t tried many other online services, but as far as I know there’s nothing that fits the asker’s requirement (which is not saying those platforms are bad-they are just incompatible). While the configuration does somehow resemble MacDown’s, they are still different, and at times incompatible with each other. I host my own personal site/blog, and it uses a custom renderer to process Markdown. One particular instance is when I got asked whether I can recommend a blogging platform that supports extensions MacDown has. Some of them have been added as FAQ, but there are more that don’t fit, and they need a good place to the public. For those I can answer (not a lot, really), many are common enough that I got asked multiple times. But I am by no means an expert on Markdown, let alone many other topics people ask me about, and I’m sorry I can’t answer many of your questions. I love them, and have tried (and will continue to try) answering them the best I could. I have also received a lot of emails/tweets/DMs recently for MacDown. So I figured that it’d be better to find somewhere else in the future. And the post doesn’t really fit well with other posts there either, as my personal blog targets more toward Chinese audience. But it seems a bit queer, to say at least, to use my personal blog for that purpose.

Back when I released MacDown 0.2 I felt that we have too much to fit inside the release note, so I wrote a blog post for it. You might not need all that for your workflow, but I’m just impressed with them.This has been on my mind for some time. They have diagrams and other rich features. I think the best markdown editors are online at this point. However, it will be more on the live preview, more of a visually oriented Adobe tool that is super pretty and focused on web dev almost exclusively.Īll that said, I don’t think there’s anything better than StackEdit right now. The Sublime Beta someone mentioned is just their version 3 “beta” which is more the new sense of beta as “something very stable that we just haven’t gotten around to stamping as 1.0 yet”īrackets is also very nice, and has plenty of markdown support from its extensions. Text editors were pretty well sorted out by the 1990s, and fast, but now we’ve decided to make them slow, because…the web or something.

#MOU VS MACDOWN SOFTWARE#

Sometimes the web is a step backward for software development, and I think it conditions people to a different sense of what “fast” and “slow” mean. It’s so confusing that they would build a desktop text editor out of “the web”. Well, maybe you’ve already spent years with it. I can’t recommend Sublime enough if you’re thinking about playing with a new editor. If you don’t want live rendering, then Sublime is great with lightweight plugins like MarkdownLight:

Mou vs macdown