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Tools to support your markdown authoring

Johan van der Knijff edited this page May 10, 2013 · 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

Standalone applications

Texts

Texts is rich editor for Markdown, with multiple export options (e.g. PDF, Microsoft Word, LaTeX, HTML, ePub).

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.

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).

ReText

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

Web-based applications

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.

Previewers

Marked

Marked is a markdown previewer for OS X.

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