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Writer Plus is a handy writer app allowing creative writers to jot down quick points. Writer Plus is a writing application without the fuss and distraction of a traditional word processor. Writer Plus is perfect for writing notes, novel, lyrics, poems, essay, draft on your phone or tablet. Writer Plus' philosophy is Keep it Simple. Writer Plus tries to be as basic as possible, giving you. Texts is a word processor for well-structured documents that uses plain text Markdown as file storage format. Documents can be published to PDF, HTML, DOCX, EPUB, and other formats from single source.
Markdown (.MD) is a text format that lazy people use to write HTML. Unfortunately once those same lazies are used to the format, their eyes glaze over and they start to believe .MD is the solution for all the world's problems. They share a lot in common with githubbies who think github is the solution for book production, open source, bad democracies etc.
.MD files are common in the geek world. Programmers love them. The design of .MD is simple and efficient. If you know the syntax, you can write basic text documents with headers and bullet lists, blockquotes, bold & emphasis etc. pretty quick. That makes it a handy tool for the elite of text workers – programmers – to develop simple text documents, quickly. So it's a popular format for writing, for example, human-readable README files that tell you a little bit about the software you are about to install. However, that is where the use case ends. .MD is not a useful format for many other cases unless you want to prove to the programmers that you too can do tricky stuff in plain text. For the rest of us, it has little value.
Markdown was originally developed by John Gruber in 2004 and you can read about some of the reasons why he developed it here. The original purpose of .MD is that it can be read without converting it to another format like HTML. Presumably, John Gruber wanted a format that could be read easily by the eye, allowing the user to be able to quickly understand which part of a text is a heading, which part is a list, which part is a paragraph etc .MD is designed not to be rendered for display, it is meant to be the display.
For example, a list written in .MD would look something like this:
That actually looks like a list. In HTML we would do something similar and it would look like this:
- item 1
- item 2
- item 3
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An asterisk looks like a bullet, so there is little cognisant drag here. Pretty readable.
However, things start to fall apart pretty fast. Can we really parse at speed, for example, nested bold and emphasis in .MD like this:
Is that or the following easier to read?
The quick brown foxjumpsover the lazy dog
I'm going to say the second is easier to read. Way easier to read. So, that is just the start of the problems; from here on in it goes downhill pretty quick for use cases beyond simple READMEs.
MarkDown isn't designed for creating HTML
So, let's assume we can agree Markdown is readable in a very limited number of scenarios – and move on to rationalise (grasp at straws) other needs for the format. That is pretty much where we are today, with the big selling point being that Markdown is an easy way to create HTML. But let's face it, even programmers don't like reading raw Markdown and even in the most popular .MD repository of them all – github – the Markdown files are rendered in the browser as nicely formatted HTML. Great! A use case we can stand behind – use Markdown to create HTML.
However .MD is really a pretty bad way to create HTML. Firstly, you need something to convert the .MD into HTML. So if you use just a plain text editor to create .MD files and load it into the browser you will see just plain, boring Markdown. No nicely formatted documents for you. There are tools that programmers like, and so the rest of us are also expected to like them, for converting .MD to .html. After all, according to the technically gifted, converting a .MD file to HTML is 'really really easy.'
One of the most common tools for doing this is Pandoc. Pandoc is a great software and extremely useful. However having to install and learn how to run Pandoc – a complex tool at best – to convert a text file to something readable – sounds a little like the long way home. And that's not where the rot ends, far from it, the rot has only just set in and the worst is to come. If everyone was to use Pandoc to convert .MD to HTML we would have consistent conversion results. Unfortunately, that's not what happens. Each to their own, and we have a lot of different tools with which to do these conversions, and hence we have different results created from the same source. Ugh. That is a file format nightmare right there.
And let's say you want to add a little colour to your text. Perhaps a highlight? Forget about it. Markdown lacks the tools to enable you to do it. Pandoc might help, however – let's add some colour highlights to a code block with this easy to remember command from the Pandoc manual:
So, first of all, do you know what a command is? Do you know what a terminal is? Happy using one? Oh.that's actually not ok for you? No problems, there are plenty of online introductory courses on the command line. So before you write that funding document, 'about' page on your website or scholarly research document – just whip through a quick course on the command line and you'll be all set! (don't forget to read the sections about installing software from the command line, you'll need it to get Pandoc working).
Problems with conversion tools aside – Markdown struggles to find a nice way to represent HTML. It's just a bad fit. Use Markdown for creating HTML and you will find all sorts of little formatting gotchas that will cause you frustration. It is why many markdown environments/conversion tools also support HTML tags.
All HTML is valid Markdown. If you're stuck, not able to format your content as you would like (for example using tables), you can always use plain HTML instead of Markdown. http://support.ghost.org/markdown-guide/
So if you want to really write HTML with Markdown you have to, well, write HTML. Klaro.
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Markdown was never intended for writing HTML. It wasn't designed that way and for good reason – it doesn't do it well.
Codified text
As mentioned above, by design, the original markdown has a very small subset of elements that can be converted to HTML. As John Gruber says in his philosophy:
Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it…The idea for Markdown is to make it easy to read, write, and edit prose.
So, Markdown is not actually designed to be a good format for creating HTML. And it lives up to its design. It is for this reason that some Markdown formats ‘extend' Markdown to include HTML code, and there are also other forks of Markdown that do some really weird stuff that I can hardly explain. For example, Ghost Markdown, the version of Markdown used for the (Open Source) Ghost blogging platform, tries to wrangle image formatting into Markdown. To place an image you have to write the following:
Intuitive, right? Nope.
The above is really a leap from ‘readable' to ‘codified'. It is codified text and in order to be able to work with it, you need to know how to de-code the text… I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. Markdown adds another level of codified complexity which I then need to de-code first (according to non-standardised, and not-standard rules written in some help file somewhere if I'm lucky), so that I can then sally forth and read the content? No thanks.
Say no to codified text.
Non-standardised formats suck
Efforts to take Markdown and extend it to meet a wider variety of formatting needs are actually where the big trouble starts. Markdown has gone off in a hundred-and-one different directions, each with its own syntax.
That means, if I want to write a Ghost blog (I love Ghost by the way, no disrespect to them) in Markdown (their required format) then it is not enough to learn Markdown. I must learn Ghost markdown …their particular reading of what a good markdown format is… So, that leads us to one of the really big problems. Markdown is not standardised.
Can any of us think of another non-standardised text format and where that leads us? Does MS Word and ‘world of pain' ring any bells? Yes, Markdown is non-standardised and that is a very big no-no. It is, in fact, quite shocking that programmers, big on standards, do not quite see that by advocating Markdown they advocate dropping some central best practices. Can't say anything more about that really.
But Markdown is structured!
I often hear the term 'structured text' when referring to Markdown. For example, the opening lines from the CommonMark pre-amble.:
Markdown is a plain text format for writing structured documents
Sounds good doesn't it? Sounds very techy and convincing. But what is structured text? Structured text means basically that we can see if something is a heading or something is a bulleted list, or something is a paragraph. Huh? But that describes just about any text document. Structured text is the basic requirement of any text you create – without it, you just have a flat plain-text document with no headings, no bullet lists etc. So… we might as well start every sentence about documents designed to be read as being ‘structured'. I think tomorrow I will go and buy a structured book. Or perhaps I will write a structured narrative on my text-structuring word processor. Excuse me word processor sales person, do you have structured text word processors? Ugh. Meaningless.
What is left?
Markdown is good for limited use cases. Use it for README files on github.
If you have a good dose of Markdown cool aid then don't let me bring you down from your sugar high. Markdown away. However, if you have heard that there is this cool format available and it cures all your textual needs and it is just really really easy to use and really really quick… then think about the elixir you are being offered and re-read this document before slurping away…
Some comments on this article on Hacker News here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8403783
March 19, 2018 / Texts 1.5 Released
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December 12, 2017 / Texts 1.4.3 Released
Upgrade to Pandoc 2.0.
April 13, 2017 / Texts 1.4.2 Released
Support line breaks in headings.
Update MathJax CDN in HTML export templates.
December 4, 2016 / Texts 1.4.1 Released
Support Pandoc 1.19.
Don't escape underscore character inside words.
November 1, 2016 / Texts 1.4 Released
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March 23, 2016 / Texts 1.3.2 Released
Support up to 20 columns in tables.
Don't wrap URLs in < and > signs.
Fix export of tables following footnotes.
Fix export of single-column tables.
Don't toggle find panel on Command+F (Mac OS X).
Improve support of MiKTeX per-user install (Windows).
Improve support of Pandoc per-machine install (Windows).
Improve execution under Wine on Linux.
January 23, 2016 / Texts 1.3.1 Released
Normalise paragraph indents on save.
Preserve pinned documents on app update (Windows).
January 4, 2016 / Texts 1.3 Released
Upgrade to Pandoc 1.16.
November 29, 2015 / Texts 1.2 Released
Support publishing to GitHub Pages, with math, tables etc. Read more »
Option for formatting code blocks with backticks.
Preserve attributes of code blocks (e.g. language).
Format inline math with double dollar signs by default.
Improve stability on Windows.
Adjust table columns widths in PDF export.
October 31, 2015 / Texts 1.1 Released
Support installation of editor themes from
.text-themefiles (Mac OS X).Enable spellchecking by default (Mac OS X).
Clear cached images on app start (Mac OS X).
Enable saving of document with custom extension (Mac OS X).
Fix copy of HTML to clipboard (Windows).
Remove support of Markdown flavours, generate markup common to variations.
October 12, 2015 / Texts 1.0 Released
Improve support of Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
Improve support of Windows 10.
Support high-resolution displays on Windows.
August 31, 2015 / Texts 0.23.5 Released
Enable autoformatting by default.
Open .rmd files (Windows).
Display page orientation buttons in Print dialog (OS X).
Fix Image button on toolbar (Windows).
July 8, 2015 / Texts 0.23.4 Released
Update URL of Bootstrap CSS in HTML export template.
Fix commands removing table column and rows.
Implement smart quotes (Windows).
Fix potential problem when application is closed via Alt+F4 (Windows).
Offer Pandoc 1.15 by default.
June 15, 2015 / Texts 0.23.3 Released
Fix formatting of tables with long text.
June 14, 2015 / Texts 0.23.2 Released
Change Markdown syntax defaults to work well with GitHub. Sample »
Disable autoformatting by default, add an option to enable. Read more »
Add option for tables style. Read more »
Add option to export citations to XeLaTeX in natbib format. Read more »
One filter for all Markdown extensions in Open and Save dialogs (Windows).
Fix editing of prefix in Citation dialog (Windows).
Include booktabs package in default XeLaTeX templates for correct table rendering.
Reduce CPU usage when word/character count is enabled.
June 5, 2015 / Texts 0.23.1 Released
Save documents with
.mdfilename extension by default.Add option for default filename extenstion (Windows). Read more »
Assign keyboard shortcuts to 'Insert Citation' command.
Integrate citations with bibliographic reference managers via copy&paste (OS X). Read more »
More stable spellchecking (OS X).
Display checkmark for 'Spell Checking' in menu (OS X).
Mark current style in menu and on toolbar (OS X).
April 26, 2015 / Texts 0.23 Released
Basic support of bibliography in BibTeX format. Add 'File→Bibliography…' command for configuration and 'Insert→Citation' command for creation of citations.
Add 'Insert→Author' and 'Insert→Title' commands.
Edit selected image, hyperlink or citation on Alt+Enter.
Support multi-paragraph footnotes.
Merge 'Insert→Image' and 'Insert→Image URL' commands.
Add file selection button to 'Insert Hyperlink' dialog (OS X).
Save image caption in standard Markdown format.
Install missing MiKTeX packages automatically (Windows).
Position caret after link when pasting URL (OS X).
Don't fail on saving empty title or author.
Remove date from default TeX/PDF templates.
Reset 'modified' flag on document open (Windows).
Fix saving of ATX headings (Windows).
Hide Find panel on Command+F (OS X).
Download installer automatically during update (Windows).
Don't ask to save Welcome document if it is not modified (OS X).
Don't open Untitled document on start but open if app icon clicked again (OS X).
Display modal dialog during export (Windows).
Require Pandoc 1.13.2 or later.
March 5, 2015 / Texts 0.22.1 for Windows Released
Add spell check options (Windows). Read more »
February 28, 2015 / Texts 0.22 Released
Display spelling suggestions in context menu.
Export all formats via Pandoc.
Edit title and author metadata if present.
Preserve bibliographic citations and references.
Process bibliographic citations in export.
Remove hyperlink if URL is empty in 'Insert Hyperlink' dialog.
Render text with antialiasing (Windows).
Support installation for all users and into custom folder (Windows).
Add space at the bottom for more comfortable typing.
Add option to save inline links.
Don't paste as Markdown in default paste.
Add 'Paste as Markdown' command.
Improve tables parsing from Pandoc.
Preserve raw TeX blocks and spans.
Enable 'Services' menu (OS X).
Export HTML slides with vertical navigation for second level headings.
Display MiKTeX dialogs during PDF export (Windows).
Don't open recent document by default (Windows).
Add option to not reopen documents on start (OS X).
Disable autosave by default, add option (Windows).
Add option to save ATX heading (OS X).
Add option to set select spellchecking language (Windows).
Hide writing direction commands from menu.
Display border around math blocks and gray background for code blocks.
Load templates from 'Templates' subfolder at document location (OS X).
Update HTML slides export template for latest version of reveal.js.
Add file selection button in 'Insert Hyperlink' dialog (Windows).
Escape plus and minus character at the beginning of paragraph.
Make undo more reliable.
Don't print text caret (Windows).
Fix numbering of highly nested lists.
Fix 'Find Next' when Find panel is shown (OS X).
Fix line splitting in printing.
Fix formatting of tables with CJK characters.
Fix decoding of URLs.
Fix editing of hyperlinks with non-ASCII characters (Windows).
Drop support of OS X 10.7.
September 21, 2014 / Texts 0.21 Released
Import from Word format.
Import from OPML format (Mac OS X).
Export to OPML format (Mac OS X).
Export to EPUB 3 format (Mac OS X).
Export to Open Document format (Mac OS X).
Templates in Word export (Mac OS X).
Don't display link URL in separate paragraph.
Save documents in Pandoc Markdown format.
Parse all files via Pandoc by default.
Remove 'Comment' paragraph style.
Drop support of Mac OS X 10.6.
June 20, 2014 / Texts for Windows 0.20.1 Released
Fix rendering of images with relative path.
June 16, 2014 / Texts 0.20 Released
Toolbar with fast access to most common styles and actions.
Move editor settings from 'Window' menu into 'View' menu. Deliverance.
Fix potential loss of focus in empty document.
June 3, 2014 / Texts 0.19.2 Released
Fix parsing of indentation in code and math blocks.
May 31, 2014 / Texts 0.19.1 Released
Paste as plain text into code and math blocks.
Fix caret handling just before line break.
Disable spellchecking and autocorrection in code blocks.
Improve automatic Pandoc path detection (Windows).
Support customization of Pandoc and XeLaTeX paths (Windows).
Support 'save unwrapped' option for Pandoc Markdown (Windows).
May 26, 2014 / Texts 0.19 Released
Export of HTML presentations. See example »
GitHub Pages and Jekyll support (Kramdown). Read more »
Markdown auto-formatting for paragraphs and words. Read more »
Option to save documents with Unix newlines on Windows. Read more »
Option to save Markdown with ATX headings on all levels. Read more »
'Copy as Plain Text' command in the 'Edit' menu.
Keyboard shortcut for 'Insert / Image URL' command (OS X).
Open last edited file on start (Windows).
Removed low-level hyperlink and footnote styling commands from 'Word' menu.
Support Pandoc 1.12.4. Download for OS X or Windows.
Stability improvements and bug fixes.
March 23, 2014 / Texts 0.18.5 Released
Add 'Insert Image URL' command (Windows).
Save tables in 'pipe' format in GitHub and MMD Markdown flavors.
Export non-breaking space as HTML entity in HTML format.
Insert non-breaking space on Ctrl+Shift+Space (Windows).
Paste image files copied from Finder as images (Mac OS X).
Escape pipe character for more robust table parsing.
Fix URL detection in paste (Mac OS X).
Fix selection of Markdown flavor based on extension.
Fix pasting of multiline text into search field (Mac OS X).
February 3, 2014 / Texts 0.18.4 Released
Add separators to 'Paragraph' and 'Word' menus. Onyx 3 1 2 download free.
Display thumbnail previews for .md files (Mac OS X).
Paste URL from clipboard inline (Mac OS X).
Respect 'no wrap' option when saving in Pandoc, GitHub or MMD format (Mac OS X).
Fix compatibility issue with Default Folder X (Mac OS X).
Remove 'Image' command from 'Paragraph' menu (Windows).
Accept three dashes as end of YAML block.
Fix saving of tables with long words (more that 40 characters).
Fix saving of images with long URLs containing spaces.
January 20, 2014 / Texts 0.18.3 Released
Option to use Pandoc and XeLaTeX installed via MacPorts (OS X). Read more »
Option to suppress creation of empty document (OS X). Read more »
Option to export tight lists to HTML (OS X). Read more »
Fixes for parsing of YAML metadata via Pandoc.
December 25, 2013 / Texts 0.18.2 for OS X Released
Fix: autoupdate may ask for a password.
June 16, 2014 / Texts 0.20 Released
Toolbar with fast access to most common styles and actions.
Move editor settings from 'Window' menu into 'View' menu. Deliverance.
Fix potential loss of focus in empty document.
June 3, 2014 / Texts 0.19.2 Released
Fix parsing of indentation in code and math blocks.
May 31, 2014 / Texts 0.19.1 Released
Paste as plain text into code and math blocks.
Fix caret handling just before line break.
Disable spellchecking and autocorrection in code blocks.
Improve automatic Pandoc path detection (Windows).
Support customization of Pandoc and XeLaTeX paths (Windows).
Support 'save unwrapped' option for Pandoc Markdown (Windows).
May 26, 2014 / Texts 0.19 Released
Export of HTML presentations. See example »
GitHub Pages and Jekyll support (Kramdown). Read more »
Markdown auto-formatting for paragraphs and words. Read more »
Option to save documents with Unix newlines on Windows. Read more »
Option to save Markdown with ATX headings on all levels. Read more »
'Copy as Plain Text' command in the 'Edit' menu.
Keyboard shortcut for 'Insert / Image URL' command (OS X).
Open last edited file on start (Windows).
Removed low-level hyperlink and footnote styling commands from 'Word' menu.
Support Pandoc 1.12.4. Download for OS X or Windows.
Stability improvements and bug fixes.
March 23, 2014 / Texts 0.18.5 Released
Add 'Insert Image URL' command (Windows).
Save tables in 'pipe' format in GitHub and MMD Markdown flavors.
Export non-breaking space as HTML entity in HTML format.
Insert non-breaking space on Ctrl+Shift+Space (Windows).
Paste image files copied from Finder as images (Mac OS X).
Escape pipe character for more robust table parsing.
Fix URL detection in paste (Mac OS X).
Fix selection of Markdown flavor based on extension.
Fix pasting of multiline text into search field (Mac OS X).
February 3, 2014 / Texts 0.18.4 Released
Add separators to 'Paragraph' and 'Word' menus. Onyx 3 1 2 download free.
Display thumbnail previews for .md files (Mac OS X).
Paste URL from clipboard inline (Mac OS X).
Respect 'no wrap' option when saving in Pandoc, GitHub or MMD format (Mac OS X).
Fix compatibility issue with Default Folder X (Mac OS X).
Remove 'Image' command from 'Paragraph' menu (Windows).
Accept three dashes as end of YAML block.
Fix saving of tables with long words (more that 40 characters).
Fix saving of images with long URLs containing spaces.
January 20, 2014 / Texts 0.18.3 Released
Option to use Pandoc and XeLaTeX installed via MacPorts (OS X). Read more »
Option to suppress creation of empty document (OS X). Read more »
Option to export tight lists to HTML (OS X). Read more »
Fixes for parsing of YAML metadata via Pandoc.
December 25, 2013 / Texts 0.18.2 for OS X Released
Fix: autoupdate may ask for a password.
December 23, 2013 / Texts 0.18.1 for Windows Released
Fix: Pandoc cannot be found on Windows XP.
Fix: Repetitive display of Welcome document (Windows).
December 22, 2013 / Texts 0.18 Released
Autosave documents every minute.
Open .text files via embedded parser and other file types via Pandoc.
Remove 'Reopen in Format' and 'Save in Format' menu commands.
Add 'Import' commands for Markdown flavors.
Fix input of composite Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters (Windows).
Preserve YAML blocks in Texts parser/formatter.
Fix parsing of tables with hyperlinks and footnotes via Pandoc.
Improve export and import via Pandoc.
Don't scale preview of small images (10+ pixels height).
Show white mouse cursor in 'Dark' theme.
December 5, 2013 / Texts 0.17.1 Released
Fix parsing of tables without headers in Pandoc Markdown format.
Improve export of Unicode glyphs from Welcome document to PDF (OS X).
Ignore 'Insert' key (Windows).
Make current span highlight darker in the 'Dark' theme.
Add 'Sepia' theme.
November 17, 2013 / Texts 0.17 Released
Require update to Pandoc 1.12.1.
Fix compatibility issues on OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
Implement 'Find Next' command.
Assign keyboard shortcut to 'Insert Image URL' (Mac OS X).
Preserve headings 4-6.
October 19, 2013 / Texts 0.16.1 for Windows Released
Fix escaping of backslashes on save (Windows).
Fix loading in GitHub/MMD format (Windows).
October 13, 2013 / Texts 0.16 Released
Support Pandoc 1.12.
Ignore images in word/character count.
Enable QuickLook for .md files (OS X).
Insert plain URL if link text is empty in the 'Insert Hyperlink' dialog.
Rename 'Character' menu to 'Word'.
Open plain text files (non-Markdown) on OS X.
Parse text as Markdown on 'paste' command.
Add 'Paste as Plain Text' command.
Fix export of URLs with emails to HTML.
Fix saving of tables with words longer than 40 characters.
Fix saving of hyperlinks without URL.
September 24, 2013 / Texts 0.15.3 Released
Fix potential crash after click on a link (Windows).
September 22, 2013 / Texts 0.15.2 Released
Images are displayed in the editor (Windows).
Split 'Format' menu into 'Paragraph', 'Character' and 'Table' menus.
Fix copy&paste in 'Find' text box on Windows.
Keep text direction after Enter key press.
Preserve RTL text direction in HTML export.
July 25, 2013 / Texts 0.15.1 for Mac OS X Released
Enable export to DOCX, RTF, EPUB via Pandoc in AppStore version.
July 20, 2013 / Texts 0.15 for Mac OS X Released
Images are displayed in the editor (OS X).
Images can be pasted from clipboard (OS X).
Spellchecking can be disabled (OS X).
Exclude hyperlink definitions from word and character count.
Texts for Mac OS X can be purchased via AppStore.
June 15, 2013 / Texts 0.14.5 Released
Fix mouse cursor flickering (Windows).
June 9, 2013 / Texts 0.14.4 Released
Option to display character count.
Markup characters are no longer escaped on copy to clipboard.
Enter key press inserts empty paragraph before table.
Tab/Shift+Tab keys move caret to next/prev cell in table.
Tab inserts new row at the end of table.
Paragraph movement commands shift column/row in table.
Fix numbered items counter reset after headings level 2 and 3.
Fix export to PDF on OS X 10.6.
May 28, 2013 / Texts 0.14.3 Released
Fix: PageDown key doesn't work until some other key is pressed. (Windows)
Fix potential text caret misalignment. (OS X)
Display documents thumbnails in Finder. (OS X)
Support RTL scripts in Quick Look preview. (OS X)
May 26, 2013 / Texts 0.14.2 Released
Fix crash on image paste (OS X).
Fix export of tables with empty cells.
Remove empty paragraphs in HTML export.
Improve PDF export when image has special characters in filename.
Always fit image in page width in PDF.
Support default Markdown dialect option.
Maintain scrolling so that caret is visible after switch to fullscreen (Windows).
Support footnotes in tables in PDF export.
Improve table column width calculation in PDF export.
Support 'save unwrapped' option.
Ignore punctuation in word count.
Improve typography in OS X version.
May 23, 2013 / Texts 0.14.1 Released
Fix: export to HTML5 fails on undefined footnotes and hyperlinks.
Fix: text in comments is included in word count.
May 18, 2013 / Texts 0.14 Released
Tables.
Quick Look plugin (Mac OS X).
Additional languages in spell check (Windows). Read more »
Open and save other Markdown flavors (Pandoc, GitHub, MMD).
Automatic updates.
April 16, 2013 / Texts 0.13.2 Released
Fix autoformatting on OS X 10.6 and 10.7.
Fix font rendering issue on Windows.
Fix copy&paste of formatted text from Chrome and Firefox on OS X.
March 19, 2013 / Texts 0.13.1 Released
Fix error on pasting MultiMarkdown (Mac OS X).
Markdown To Word Online
March 11, 2013 / Texts 0.13 Released
Templates for PDF and HTML export. Read more »
Option to display word count in window title.
Option to save files without hard wrapping. Read more »
Save with CRLF line breaks on Windows.
Basic support of right-to-left scripts.
Pandoc 1.11 support. Download for Mac OS X or Windows.
MiKTeX is recommended for XeLaTeX on Windows. Download.
February 27, 2013 / Texts 0.12.1 Released
Improved support of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Shift+Enter in a code block inserts paragraph break.
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February 22, 2013 / Texts 0.12 Released
Editor themes (Dark, Monospaced, Serif).
Autoformat bulleted and numbered lists.
'Insert Footnote' command.
'Insert Hyperlink' command (Windows).
Main menu restructured into 'Insert' and 'Format' submenus.
'Comment' style for paragraphs (ignored on export).
'Paste → Unformatted text' command (Mac).
Window width maintained on window zoom (Mac).
Editor font size remembered (Mac).
Enter key press in a code block inserts line break.
Pandoc 1.10 support.
January 17, 2013 / Texts 0.11 Released
Beta version of Texts for iOS is available in iTunes Store.
'Copy' and 'Cut' commands copy rich text to clipboard.
'Paste' command pastes rich text from clipboard (requires Pandoc).
'Copy as HTML' command to get raw HTML.
'Insert Image' command in context menu.
'Insert Hyperlink' command in context menu (Mac OS X only).
Mnemonic keyboard shortcuts for paragraph styles.
Separate keyboard shortcuts for each heading level.
Command for formatting cleanup.
Support for block quotations.
Context menu with copy&paste commands.
URLs autoformated on paste from clipboard (Mac OS X only).
'Follow Link' command from a reference creates note paragraph.
Hyperlinks and references highlighted when Command/Ctrl key is pressed.
New icon.
November 22, 2012 / Texts 0.10.1 Released
Open files with other Markdown filename extensions:
mdown,mdml,mdtext,mdtxt,mdwn,mkd,mkdn.
November 16, 2012 / Texts 0.10 Released
Installation packages signed with digital certificates to avoid security warnings.
Documents can be saved with
.mdand.markdownfilename extensions.All supported file types (
.text,.md,.markdown) open via Texts parser by default.'Reopen…' commands added to parse document via MultiMarkdown or Pandoc.
'Repeat Last Export' command added.
Basic search implemented.
Basic spell checking implemented.
'Recent Files' list added in Texts for Windows.
October 26, 2012 / Texts 0.9 Released
A new version of Texts with built-in MultiMarkdown import.
