Daniel Winterstein has just released a new version of his Markdown plugin for Eclipse. From the Markdown mailing list:
There’s syntax highlighting, a preview window, and it can export to html. The best feature is the document outline, which is a joy for editing large documents. Plus you can use TODO tags and these […]
Leopard has a small feature that I have often longed for. All my notes are text files in markdown format. URI schemes extend the usefulness of the medium. With the file URI scheme I can link to other files, and with the mailto URI scheme I can send emails. But one thing that I have […]
Not Weapons of Mass Destruction, nor even Word and the North Korean Missile Crisis, but Wysiwym MarkDown editor.
As discussed in a previous post Mardown is an edge case of markup. A marked-up document contains:
text information about that text
A markup language determines:
what markup is allowed what markup is required how the markup is explicitly distinguished from the text what the […]
Once upon a time, authors would send their manuscripts to their publisher where a copy editor would mark up the manuscript with instructions for the typesetter. (The origin, by the way, of the modern conception of a markup language such as HTML, LaTeX, or Markdown—if, indeed, it is one). This was only feasible if the […]
Good news for text-editing writers on the OS X platform. The venerable Mac text editor BBEdit has released an update which includes native Markdown support and improved TeX support. From the release notes:
The Markdown language module now supports syntax coloring. If you choose “Preview in BBEdit” when a Markdown source […]
Dr. Drang recently posted about adding SmartyPants to Instiki. I like both these tools, but I ran into a few snags, so I thought I would post some updated instructions.
For those who don’t know, Instiki is a wiki clone based on Ruby on Rails. Very easy to install and use. One virtue of Instiki is […]
Markdown is a lightweight markup language. Or is it?
I use Markdown everyday. All my notes are in Markdown, I write the first drafts of my papers in Markdown (then converting them to LaTeX), and, thanks to Michael Fortrin’s plugin, I am blogging in Markdown. Part of its utility is its transparency. It gets out of […]
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