Posts tagged ‘markdown’
Text files and me V - Markdown
December 25th, 2011 at 8:25 pm by Dr. Drang
If it seems like this series has been going on forever, it’s because it has. Part 1: From text to word processors and back Part 2: Linux, troff, and SGML Part 3: The LaTeX years Part 3½: Plates and pdflatex Part 4: BBEdit and TextMate My Christmas present to myself is finishing this series off…
Markdown reference links in TextMate
September 12th, 2011 at 11:33 pm by Dr. Drang
Brett Terpstra has released another clever Markdown tool to sit next to his Marked application and Blogsmith Bundle. It’s a sort of Markdown tidy, a filter that runs through a file and turns all your inline links into reference links. So there’s no misunderstanding, let’s do a quick vocabulary review. Inline links look like this:…
New syntax highlighting for Markdown
December 17th, 2010 at 11:49 am by Dr. Drang
In this post from a couple of weeks ago, I introduced a new feature to the blog: syntax highlighting for included source code. I still like the idea, but have decided I didn’t like the implementation, so I’m making a change. The change should be almost invisible to readers, but it’s a significant improvement for…
Syntax highlighting
December 5th, 2010 at 10:14 pm by Dr. Drang
After some persistent comments in the embedded gist article, I’ve decided to try my hand at adding syntax highlighting to the code I post here. I think I have it working, but don’t be surprised if some things look a little weird for a while. Update 12/17/10 Basically, everything in this article has been superseded…
MathJax, Markdown, and Instapaper
November 24th, 2010 at 9:36 pm by Dr. Drang
Last month, I got an email from reader and occasional commenter Alan Schmitt who told me that my posts with equations didn’t display well in Instapaper. The problem was that an equation like1 [\Phi(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} \int_{-\infty}^x e^{-\xi^2/2} d\xi] would appear in Instapaper as [math] which, while true, isn’t very informative. I dashed off a…
Trunk Notes
November 22nd, 2010 at 10:23 pm by Dr. Drang
I mentioned Trunk Notes, the iOS wiki system that uses Markdown formatting, in my post last month about the state of Markdown. I’d been alerted to it by reader Danstan’s comment1 on my MarkdownMail post and had visited its web site, but I hadn’t bought or used it. No TextExpander, no Dropbox, no thank you.…
Elements 1.5 adds Markdown
November 3rd, 2010 at 11:25 pm by Dr. Drang
And there was much rejoicing (with a certain amount of bitching). The rejoicing Elements 1.5, the latest version of the iPhone text editor that syncs via Dropbox, appeared in the App Store either last night or this morning, and came with a huge list of improvements in the release notes. Among the best are You…
David Pogue uses Markdown
October 22nd, 2010 at 7:30 am by Dr. Drang
Well, sort of. I don’t read Pogue regularly, but I couldn’t help following the link in this tweet from Allen MacKenzie, because a good Microsoft bashing is irresistible. It led to Pogue’s most recent post, in which he lays into various deficiencies in Redmond’s latest Mac version of Office—especially Word and Outlook. As I read…
Markdown, mail, and MarkdownMail
October 19th, 2010 at 11:04 pm by Dr. Drang
Since I’ve been on a bit of a Markdown kick in my recent posts, I might as well continue with a post about Markdown and email. Let’s start with MarkdownMail, which I talked about back in September. A couple of weeks ago, Second Gear released Version 2, with (from the release notes) Native iPad version…
Thoughts on Markdown
October 16th, 2010 at 10:47 pm by Dr. Drang
At the end of last year, Jeff Atwood wrote a post in which he criticized John Gruber for abandoning Markdown and begged him to take a more active role in it development. There were responses both pro and con (Daniel Jalkut’s post was an archetype of the cons), but none from Gruber himself. I had…
