I’ve just come across another editor LoremIpsum, this also has a realtime markdown preview and has been enhanced for Mountain Lion. Marked includes tools for handling page breaks, titles, table of contents and much more. With one click you can copy HTML for posting online or including in web pages, copy rich text, save a PDF or print your work. It can even automatically scroll the preview to where you’re currently editing in your document.

I’ve also heard good things about Marked it also has two panes and it will update a preview as you work (with several high-quality themes to choose from, or design your own), refreshing every time you save. It supports export as HTML or PDF.The application was built for Mac OS X so takes advantage of many Mac OS features. Markdown Pro now lets you add custom templates to the in built selection of templates.

I’ve previously mentioned Markdown Pro which has been recently updated, this two pane editor allows you to write your document in one pane whilst giving you an instant preview of how the document will look. As you might expect BBEdit is Mojave ready. As an aside I always get updates from the BBEdit site rather than the Mac AppStore since the AppStore version has a couple of limitations imposed by the Apple submission guidelines. I mainly use BBEdit and regard it as the “gold standard” but I keep an eye out for other markdown editors.

I use markdown extensively on my websites, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML allowing you to build HTML documents in an easily readable form.

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