We are happy to announce that Markoff, a lightweight Markdown previewer for OSX, is now available for free on the Mac App Store.
- Great Markdown support without being intrusive Byword de-emphasizes the syntax itself while emphasizing its effects. It appropriately adds style, like italic and bold, to text that's designated by markdown and dims the syntax so it does not get in the way of comprehension.
- 1Writer, iA Writer, and Boostnote are probably your best bets out of the 6 options considered. 'Can be automated with JavaSript actions' is the primary reason people pick 1Writer over the competition. This page is powered by a knowledgeable community that helps you make an informed decision.
- MarkdownPad for Mac OS X, download best alternative solutions carefully chosen by our editors and user community.
Markdown Ascii Diagrams
We write a lot of Markdown at thoughtbot. Between README’s, blog posts, and themyriad of online services that support the format in their text fields, there isa high probability that I am writing Markdown when I am not coding or designing.
Markdown Ascii Table
Markdown editor for Mac and Windows. Tables, images, footnotes, math and more. Export to PDF, HTML, Word, ePub. Lots of HTML5 presentation tools support Markdown. Hekyll, SlideDown, ShowOff, Himpress, KeyDown.
Markdown Osx Client
I don’t know about you, but I prefer using my own editor whenever possible. Ispent hours tweaking my colors, plugins, and commands, and I don’t want to givethat up for a standalone Markdown editor, regardless of how fancy it might be.The downside of this, however, is that you need to setup your own previewingworkflow.
There are both free and paid Markdown previewers on OS X, but alas, issues likeslow rendering, feature bloat, and lack of code highlighting and YAMLfrontmatter support stood in the way and made my experience less enjoyable.
Markoff is an attempt to provide a bare minimum Markdown previewing workflowthat is fast, reliable, and hassle-free. Features include:
- Uses
cmark, a C implementation of CommonMark, for parsing andrendering. This is a lot faster than other existing Ruby and JavaScriptsolutions. - Allows you to select your default editor and open the previewed document in itby hitting
Cmd+e, using the menu item, or clicking the toolbar button. - Uses highlight.js for syntax highlighting.
- Detects YAML frontmatter and renders it as a special code block.
- Auto-reloads the preview whenever the original file is saved. Depending onyour editor, you might be able to set up auto-save to get an always up-to-datepreview without manually saving.
- Shows basic information such as word and character count.
Markoff is open source and can be downloaded directly from the App Store.So, how about you give it a try and let us know what you think?