Markdown notes
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/10
Wishing an online collaboration tool that supports Markdown, especially since tools like GitHub have native support, and because of the textual nature of the file format, it plays well with version control systems. Until that, I’ll try to use editors on Mac, Windows and my blog, syncing with DropBox.
Some links that might get useful:
What is Markdown?
- [WayBack] What Is Markdown, and Why Is It Better for My To-Do Lists and Notes?.
- [WayBack] Markdown: The Ins and Outs | Nettuts+.
- [WayBack] What is Markdown?.
- [WayBack] Daring Fireball: Markdown Syntax Documentation.
- [WayBack] wordpad-xp-patched / Discussion / Markdown Syntax.
Online editors:
- [WayBack] Online Markdown Editor – Dillinger, the Last Markdown Editor ever.. Is cool: left side mark down, right side the preview.
- [WayBack] StackEdit – Welcome document. Looks promising: on-line; 2 pane (markdown/preview)
- It moved to [WayBack] StackEdit – In-browser Markdown editor Full-featured, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.
- [WayBack] Markable.in – A remarkable online markdown editor..
- [WayBack] Online Markdown Editor.
Windows + Mac:
- [WayBack] Texts — Markdown Editor for Windows & Mac OS X. Doesn’t do markdown + preview.
Windows only:
- [WayBack] Beautiful Markdown Editor for Windows.
- [WayBack] MarkdownPad – The Markdown Editor for Windows. MarkdownPad – News.
- [WayBack] HIBARA.org – MarkDown#Editor.
- [WayBack] wcoenen / DownMarker — Bitbucket.
Mac only:
Mobile:
Chrome plugins:
Comparison of tools and features:
Preview:
- [WayBack] Markdown Preview Application for Windows – Stack Overflow.>
- [WayBack] editor – How to visualize markdown files (.md extension) on windows? – Stack Overflow.
Conversion:
- [WayBack] How can Google Docs and markdown play nice? – Web Applications Stack Exchange.
- [WayBack] This Script Converts Google Documents to Markdown for Easy Exporting.
- MarkdownPP via [WayBack] jreese/markdown-pp (allows things like ToC – table of contents – youtube, LaTeX, and include files).
Comparison and resource overviews:
- [WayBack] Mastering Markdown: 30 Resources, Apps and Tutorials to Get You Started | Design Shack.
- [WayBack] 78 Tools for Writing and Previewing Markdown.
- [WayBack] What Markdown Editor is Best to Use?.
Markdown is very common in the scripting world.
A few examples:
On the syntax:
The Markdown syntax can be quite odd. Syntax examples are in http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text, which is the source code for Daring Fireball: Markdown Syntax Documentation. For instance [WayBack] when nesting ordered and unordered lists, your code needs to be indented like this:
1. Ordered item 1
- Unordered item a
- Unordered item b
1. Ordered item 2
- Unordered item c
- Unordered item d
On CommonMark and John Gruber:
Even though John Gruber – the original Markdown inventor – wasn’t involved with Markdown for like 10 years, in September 2014 he was involved in the [WayBack] “Standard” Markdown Controversy which led to the [WayBack] CommonMark project trying to set a standard for Markdown.
–jeroen
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