can you see the future?

[Fletcher T. Penney]

I've integrated direct support for Marked in my app, making it easy to use.

Over the last day, I've made some really big leaps in usability for creating MultiMarkdown *or* Markdown documents.  A few of those features were pushed to the github repo this morning.


But it's really hitting an exponentially higher level of usability:

* Automatic exporting from MMD (or even MD) to HTML, LaTeX, OPML, Flat OpenOffice Document Format (IMHO better than RTF in most ways, but easily converted to RTF by LibreOffice/OpenOffice)

* Opens OPML as if they were hierarchical MMD/MD documents and lets you edit them as is  (there are a few limitations to this "round-tripping" that I have mentioned before, but it's handy if you like OmniOutliner)

* Bold/Italic support

* Support for "paired symbols"  - e.g. "[]" "()", double quotes, "``"

* dropped files enter the file path - useful for linking to images, etc

* a toggle that reverts to "plain" Markdown instead of MultiMarkdown


I have a few more automation features I want to implement (basically the sorts of things I implemented in my TextMate bundle)

* easier list creation and modification (indent/outdent, move up/down, etc)

* automatic closing hash tags on headers (e.g. add the trailing "##" to h2's)


Most importantly - I want an embedded version of peg-multimarkdown that doesn't rely on another installation.  Currently, it uses the currently installed mmd 3.  I know there are issues with compiling and my installer on older versions of processors and the OS.


Because this looks like it really is going to go from a quick proof of concept to an actual application, and hopefully *the* MMD/MD centered application I have been waiting on for years, I am thinking about releasing this as an app on the Mac App Store.  Because of that, I won't be pushing any more updates to the github repo, but I also won't take down what's already there.

As I make a bit more headway, I'll be looking for beta testers (it's currently in more of an alpha/pre-alpha, though it works pretty well for the features that are implemented.).


So the flurry of daily (and more than daily) updates will subside for a while as I go behind the curtain for a bit.


F-




On Jul 14, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Bowerbird at aol.com wrote:


> fletcher started work on an editing app

> with markdown-preview built right in,

> after reporting on his blog that he had

> "seen the future" in ali's post last month,

> where ali debuted his syntax highlighter,

> and fletcher is releasing versions daily...

> 

> >   http://fletcherpenney.net/2011/06/ive_seen_the_future

> >   https://github.com/fletcher/MMD-Edit/downloads


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Fletcher T. Penney
fletcher at fletcherpenney.net






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