May 17
2012

I was disappointed to find that there weren’t any good packages available for Sublime Text 2 that added decent Markdown editing features. I figured it was time to learn my way around. I still haven’t dug into Python, so my script-fu in there is weak right now. I got a few things working, though, and this will evolve as I learn new things. I’ll probably look back at this first…

May 09
2012

While there was some excitement and hearty agreement with the list of my ideal Markdown text editor features, there was also some criticism. There were some valid points in all of the critiques, and I’d like to address them. I’ll do so by rambling a bit.

First, I think that some critics felt the list was overwhelming, and didn’t really dive in and consider the ramifications…

May 06
2012

There are a few great Markdown text editors available, and more being worked on right now. I want to put a list of features out there that I think any true Markdown editor should include. Some of these are implemented in one editor or another, but nothing has brought it all together (aside from TextMate with all of my customizations, and even that lacks some of the polish mentioned below).

Mar 19
2012

I added a little hack to Fletcher Penney’s MultiMarkdown Quick Look generator to give it a default style (Github CSS) and allow for customization via a .mdqlstyle.css file located in your home folder. Full details and download available on Github.

Screenshot of a Quick Look preview using the Upstanding Citizen style (available on the Github page):

Feb 22
2012

I needed some relaxing regular expression fun tonight, so I’ve updated a couple of services in the Markdown Service Tools and made some small additions. The main new feature is for handling blockquotes, and there are two versions of the Service. I’m providing some brief explanations after the jump, but feel free to skip to the Markdown Service Tools page and just check the changelog.

Feb 14
2012

Inspired by a Twitter request this morning, I’ve updated the Markdown Service Tools to version 1.3.1 to include an experimental version of a new service: Unwrap Paragraphs.

Opposite from the “Preserve line breaks” service, this one will look for consecutive lines and merge them together into one paragraph. It handles hyphenated words and won’t mess up em/en dashes in…

Feb 11
2012

I updated the Markdown Service Tools today to include some recently-developed services and some revisions to existing services.

Notably, Force Line Breaks has become Preserve Line Breaks, a slightly more elegant service for getting github-style linebreaks in your documents. If you have a block of text with hard returns in it…