Markdown Editor For Mac

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Typora is a cross-platform minimal markdown editor, providing seamless experience for both markdown readers and writers.

Choose your Markdown flavor

LightPaper comes packaged with full support for two very popular markdown formats - MultiMarkdown (MM) and GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM). When you choose MM, you get advance document authoring features such as footnotes, tables, citations etc. When you choose GFM, you get all the awesome GFM features such as tables, fenced code blocks, strikethrough, URL autolinking and even Task List!!!

  • All in all, MarkdownD is a good looking alternative Markdown editor that simplifies the entire process by providing user-friendly buttons for the commonly used Markdown tags. MarkdownD enables you to preview the results in real time, export the files to popular file formats, and keep track of all your.
  • What is Markdown? Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents. Created by John Gruber in 2004, Markdown is now one of the world’s most popular markup languages. Using Markdown is different than using a WYSIWYG editor. In an application like Microsoft Word, you click buttons to format words and phrases, and the changes.
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Math Rendering

Best Markdown Editor For Mac

LightPaper supports two very useful third-party plugins PrismJS and MathJAX out of the box. These plugins allow you to highlight your code snippets and render your math equations. Once you are satisfied with your documents, you can easily export the rendered documents in either HTML and PDF formats.

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Mermaid Integration Extensions

LightPaper makes it easy to add any external CSS or JavaScript assets. This means you can extend LightPaper's preview with your favorite libraries like Mermaid to add flowcharts and sequence diagrams, for an example.

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Jekyll Rendering Support

LightPaper takes extra care of Jekyll posts and is very smart when it comes to rendering them. It parses out and creates a nice table for your front matter and also renders your local images. With Folder Navigator and Multi-Tabs features you can open your site folder and edit multiple posts at once. And with QuickOpen you can quickly open one of your posts without having to remember the post's filename.

Markdown Editor For Mac

  • Sharing markdown file with images shouldn't be painful. Images can be uploaded to cloud server on macOS with integration of iPic Service.
    Hard to display retina image with correct size? Typora support <img> tag with customized size or zoom factor.
    When handling relative path of a local image file, you could set its base path towards the root folder of your static blog.
    Insert images will be quite easy via drag & drop.
    /* Display images, rather than text for images when writing */
  • Use your own css code to change font size, alignement, or even make some magics possible, such as Auto Numbering Headers.
    Type `[TOC]` to insert table of contents, all headings will be listed here.
    Set the href to headers, which will create a bookmark that allow you to jump to that section after clicking.
  • Arrange nested lists like a rich editor, by tab and shift+tab key.
    GFM task list supported. Able to manage simple todos in a markdown file.
    Use shortcut keys, context menu or touch bar to change list type from one to another.
  • Quickest steps to resize tables in Markdown file: just mouse dragging.
    Use shortcut keys to generate tables with given layouts. Type markdown directly is also supported.
  • Display line numbers can be turned on in preferences panel.
    Typora supports around 100 languages for syntax highlighting, covers all common programming languages.
  • Most MathJax extensions built-in, including mhchem, AMSmath, BBox, etc.
    Auto numbering math equations (enable in preference panel).
  • Draws simple SVG flow chart diagrams powered by flowchart.js.
    Generation of flowchart, sequence, gantt and more by mermaid engine.
    /* Draw diagrams from textual representation */
  • Set your the link targets towards a header, a markdown file, or an URL.
    All styles include Strong and emphasis can be correctly rendered in CJK charsets.
  • /* And other block styles */