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Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop

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Post by drew-y »

127001brewer wrote: post #22
drew-y wrote: post #16

The big thing I would like to see in Markdown editors like this is a pdf export. It'd be nice to be able to send a rendered markdown document to people without them needing to open a web browser to view it. There is a similar open source project here: https://github.com/dvcrn/markright

Both of these like promising applications, but I've just been using the Atom IDE ( https://atom.io/ ) with the "Markdown Preview" and "Markdown to PDF" packages.

I use "Markdown Preview" as well. I couldn't get "Markdown to PDF" to properly apply the styling though.

Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop

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Post by antback »

Bostwick wrote: post #40

I tried the application, and it looks great! One thing Caret gets right that other Markdown editors (Macdown is what I currently use) don't is wordcount. In Caret, the document wordcount is always visible in the upper right corner, and if I select some text, the wordcount for the selection is displayed again. Others have mentioned the lack of live-preview as a deal-breaker, but I'm ok with this because of the easy, o…

Why is so important for you the wordcount feature? I don't get it.

Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop

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Post by abnerlee »

omegote wrote: post #11

Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview without having to be pressing Contrl + P all the time. The lack of good desktop Markdown editors used to haunt me, until I started building one my own and realized how poor the support for Markdown in C++ was.

> Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview

try http://typora.io ?

Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop

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Post by masukomi »

antback wrote: post #53
Bostwick wrote: post #40

I tried the application, and it looks great! One thing Caret gets right that other Markdown editors (Macdown is what I currently use) don't is wordcount. In Caret, the document wordcount is always visible in the upper right corner, and if I select some text, the wordcount for the selection is displayed again. Others have mentioned the lack of live-preview as a deal-breaker, but I'm ok with this because of the easy, o…

Why is so important for you the wordcount feature? I don't get it.

I'm with antback on this one. You write as many words as are needed to convey your message. Unless you are a journalist or a student, why does it matter?

Also, if you're serious about word count and other metadata about your document then you should look into Marked 2. It's got that and much more.

Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop

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Post by masukomi »

omegote wrote: post #11

Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview without having to be pressing Contrl + P all the time. The lack of good desktop Markdown editors used to haunt me, until I started building one my own and realized how poor the support for Markdown in C++ was.

2 things: 1) Markdown was intentionally designed to be readable without preview. 2) check out the Marked 2 app. It's basically a preview engine with lots of good export, formatting, and metadata (about your text) options.

Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop

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Post by atmosx »

stdbrouw wrote: post #25
omegote wrote: post #11

Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview without having to be pressing Contrl + P all the time. The lack of good desktop Markdown editors used to haunt me, until I started building one my own and realized how poor the support for Markdown in C++ was.

For me, the point of Markdown (and LaTeX for that matter) is that I can focus on just the writing, not what my document will look like.

Really, you can focus on writing with LaTeX? Are we talking about paragraph after paragraph of text or scientific writing with images and formulas and code, because after writing my thesis in LaTeX my experience has been different. I've lost a huge amount of time trying to adjust images, debugging compilations errors, etc.

Of course the document looks clean as it should and stands out from the rest, but still, I wasn't able to focus on writing, I had to always double-check for errors. VIM plugin for latex helped a great deal.

Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop

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Post by atmosx »

res0nat0r wrote: post #38
2bluesc wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview Atom has this with the "Markdown Preview" that pops-up with SHIFT + CTRL + M. It does most of what I want today, but still feels lacking.

I've also been using Mou for a good while that gives you a live preview as you edit: http://25.io/mou/

I used Mou, VIM and MacDown in the past. Vim of course doesn't have a preview (sic), but both MacDown and Mou offer previews.

http://macdown.uranusjr.com/

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