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Tools to support your markdown authoring

Simon East edited this page Nov 25, 2015 · 37 revisions

Markdown is automatically rendered to html GitHub but can easily be parsed into a variety of other formats including PDF and LaTex. To convert seamlessly to these formats, you'll need a document converter. Pandoc is one such open source tool that is available on all platforms. You'll need to install a local copy to be able to run all the examples in this repo.

Pandoc

Pandoc is a universal document converter. It works from the command line and you can quickly convert a document between any two formats. These include nearly all formats commonly used for scientific writing such as Word, Markdown, Latex, HTML and RTF.

Download and install pandoc

Demos / Examples

Standalone applications

iA Writer

iA Writer a text editor for Mac, has, among others, formatted Word to Markdown and Markdown to Word conversion.

Texts

Texts is rich Markdown editor, with multiple export options (e.g. PDF, Microsoft Word, LaTeX, HTML, ePub) for Windows and OS X. Free trial or $29 to buy.

ByWord

ByWord is a simple text editor for OS X and iOS.

Mou

Mou is a simple, free, and powerful Markdown editor/previewer for OS X.

Markdown Edit

Markdown Edit is an Open Source Markdown editor for Windows with an emphasis on content and keyboard shortcuts. There is minimal window chrome and most functions are accessed through keyboard shortcuts. There is no main menu, status bar, tabbed windows or other distractions.

MarkdownPad

MarkdownPad is a Markdown editor for Windows. Both a Free and a Pro version exist; the latter adds support for (amongst other things) GitHub Flavored Markdown and Markdown Extra (including Tables).

MultiMarkdown Composer

"MultiMarkdown Composer is a text editor for Mac that is designed from the ground up around the MultiMarkdown Syntax. It is designed to make writing in MultiMarkdown (or Markdown) even easier than it already is, with automatic syntax highlighting, built in previews, easy export to any format that is supported by MultiMarkdown, and more!" [http://multimarkdown.com].

ReText

ReText is an open-source, platform-independent editor for both Markdown and reStructuredText.

Qute

Qute, is an open source, platform-independent editor for Markdown with MathJax-integrated live-preview.

CuteMarkEd

CuteMarkEd, is a Qt-based, free and open source Markdown editor with live HTML preview, math expressions, code and markdown syntax highlighting. Builds are available for Windows and Fedora Linux.

Web-based applications

Code block helper

[Tabs To Spaces Converter / Code block formatter] (http://tabstospaces.com) is an open source web tool that easily converts tabs to spaces or adds 4 spaces infront of every row to easily paste code from an IDE to markdown and have it formatted as a codeblock.

Draft

Draft is a web-based markdown editor with cloud sync, image hosting and analytics.
Markable is another web-based markdown editor with export and integration options.

StackEdit

StackEdit is an open source web app with cloud sync, local storage. It uses Stackexchange's PageDown implementation.

Previewers

Marked

Marked is a markdown previewer for OS X.

TextMate

TextMate is a commercial text editor for OS/X, which includes a built-in Markdown previewer that can be invoked with a single keystroke.

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