Posts tagged ‘markdown’
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…
Minimal?
October 4th, 2010 at 11:01 pm by Dr. Drang
I like what Patrick Rhone does at Minimal Mac, so I’m not happy that the second mention of him on this blog is going to be critical, but I think this video of his is just wrong in many ways. It’s about automating the creation of Markdown links, a topic I have several years of…
PHP Markdown Extra Math, MathJax, and WordPress
September 27th, 2010 at 10:00 pm by Dr. Drang
Over the weekend, I modified PHP Markdown Extra Math, my fork of Michel Fortin’s PHP-based Markdown processor. PHPMEM can now output either jsMath or MathJax, with the latter being the default format. If, like me, you have a WordPress blog; prefer to compose your posts in Markdown instead of HTML; need to include mathematical equations…
MarkdownMail
September 8th, 2010 at 12:59 pm by Dr. Drang
MarkdownMail is a new iPhone app from Second Gear, the people who make Elements, my favorite iPhone text editor/syncer. The idea behind MarkdownMail is simple: Write a message in plain text using Markdown formatting. Preview it to make sure the conversion to HTML works the way you expect. Send the HTML version of the message…
Markdown Handler for Apache
August 10th, 2010 at 1:00 pm by Dr. Drang
Here’s something clever: a way to have the Apache webserver automatically render Markdown files as HTML. It’s called Markdown Handler and is available in this GitHub repository. It works by adding a couple of lines to your Apache httpd.conf file (or, alternatively, your .htaccess file) that assign a “handler” to files ending in .md or…
Markdown footnotes bundle for TextMate
July 28th, 2010 at 8:11 am by Dr. Drang
There was a recent discussion on the TextMate mailing list about automating the creation of TextMate footnotes. Stephan Hugel, who started the discussion, likes having his footnote text at the bottom of the document and wanted some command/snippet/macro system that would do most of the fiddle work for him. I pointed out my Markdown reference…
PHP Markdown Extra Math
December 17th, 2009 at 5:29 pm by Dr. Drang
Tuesday’s MathJax post reminded me that I’ve never made public my modifications to PHP Markdown Extra that allow me to easily write equations here on the blog. So I took a virgin copy of Michel Fortin’s latest version of PHP Markdown Extra, applied my modifications, and put the result in a GitHub repository. From the…
