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Re: Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor

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Out of curiosity, why not support 10.6? Are there some features that rely on Lion or ML? If 10.6 had been supported, I would have purchased a copy.

In short: yes. The step from Snow Leopard to Lion was huge API-wise and a lot changed in how document based applications work.

Re: Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor

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Something I've been looking for for a while: A Markdown WYSIWYG. I personally dislike WYSIWYG, but for clients, it cannot be beaten. Now, most things that clients do in CMSs can be done with Markdown, and it avoids complications with weird HTML output, them trying to do unconventional styling (aka "ruining the website). So something like CKEditor or TinyMCE but outputting Markdown, and constrained to Markdown's limitations.

Does such a thing exist?

Re: Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor

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I've been using dillinger for a while, and I'm very happy with it: http://dillinger.io/ Also, it is open source: https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger

Pretty good!

It's great to be able to run it locally too, so I can run it offline! But how do you open another file when you're offline? (So no dropbox etc)

Re: Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor

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Something I've been looking for for a while: A Markdown WYSIWYG. I personally dislike WYSIWYG, but for clients, it cannot be beaten. Now, most things that clients do in CMSs can be done with Markdown, and it avoids complications with weird HTML output, them trying to do unconventional styling (aka "ruining the website). So something like CKEditor or TinyMCE but outputting Markdown, and constrained to Markdown's limit…

I am currently working on one! It is not release ready but if want here is a simple demo.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52646091/syntax/selectio...

I want to totally abolish two window mode and all uncertainties about how the output will look like. my target the same as yours, to make the learning curve less steep.

Re: Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor

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Looks like Mou ( http://mouapp.com/ ). Does anyone know the differences?

Erato doesn't change the text size in the editor window, just in the live preview window. Mou is clever in this regard but its cleverness that doesn't improve the experience IMHO.

This is optional. Mou has several editor themes and at least half of them don't do this—only the ones that end in "+" do.

Re: Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor

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For Linux folks out there, try ReText http://sf.net/projects/retext/ It is an editor for Markdown and reStructuredText. There is syntax highlighting and a live preview mode. The app is written with the Qt library (so it probably looks best in KDE), but it works and looks fine in Gnome.

Re: Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor

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Something I've been looking for for a while: A Markdown WYSIWYG. I personally dislike WYSIWYG, but for clients, it cannot be beaten. Now, most things that clients do in CMSs can be done with Markdown, and it avoids complications with weird HTML output, them trying to do unconventional styling (aka "ruining the website). So something like CKEditor or TinyMCE but outputting Markdown, and constrained to Markdown's limit…

You may want to try this one: http://hallojs.org/demo/markdown/

You can edit in both the rich text editor and in the textarea, and changes will get synced across.

That was just a quick demo. There are things that could be improved, especially by switching to a slightly better HTML-to-Markdown library.

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