Marked
By Brett Terpstra
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Description
“This is a godsend.” -Minimal Mac
“If you write in Markdown on the Mac, you need this.” -One Thing Well
Marked is a previewer (not an editor) for MultiMarkdown, Markdown, Text and HTML files, as well as a collection of tools for writers of all ilk. It watches your document for changes, updating the preview any time the file is saved. With a full set of customization options and preview styles, Marked adds an ideal “live” Markdown preview to any text editor and a powerful set of tools to your writing workflow.
Markdown (John Gruber) is a plain-text formatting syntax that you can use anywhere you can type. Many applications are becoming aware of it, and Marked helps you make it work everywhere. Marked uses MultiMarkdown (Fletcher Penney), a superset that adds additional capabilities including metadata, tables and footnotes.
You can also use a custom processor with Marked, making it compatible with any form of Markdown or even other languages such as Textile.
What's New in Version 1.4
### Fixed
- Window level for floated windows too high
- Add ? as a keyboard nav help trigger
- revamped hiding status bar
- style updates/tweaks
- Improve TOC animation and hiding
- Don't cache images, image changes reflected on refresh
- Extensive javascript feature improvements
### New
- Marked is now Lion-only
- Updated help system and intro screen
- Friendlier custom processor path field with visual feedback on errors
- Custom processor field now handles tilde (~) and backslashed spaces
- Option to scroll to first edit on update
- Revamped interface, (Note: Source/Preview toggle is now in the title bar)
- Table of contents is fully keyboard navigable
- Up/Down/j/k to navigate visible menu items
- pressing space will focus a type-ahead field with QuickSilver-style matching to filter the list
- Escape to dismiss/reset the search field
- Reorganized preferences
- Set per-document styles using a metadata header "Marked Style:"
- reference styles by title, full path or CSS filename (valid custom styles work)
- Scrivener 2.0+ support
- Drag a Scrivener project (.scriv) to Marked and it will be compiled and previewed
- When a Scrivener document is in the foreground, Command-E will open it in Scrivener
- Supports "preserved formatting" and inline footnotes
- Leanpub and mmd_merge support
- Syntax for including external files and source code
- Syntax highlighting/better display for source view
- Automatic syntax highlighting option for code blocks in preview, multiple styles available
- If automatic syntax highlighting is enabled, highlight.js will be included in saved HTML
- Multi-Column style completely rebuilt
- full keyboard navigation and bookmarking
- column height adjusts to window height for horizontal-only scrolling
- last column isn't truncated
- Mardown reference is a resizable, floating panel
- More interesting selection highlights in preview. This might not stay.
- CLI for running Marked from the command line (`mark`, install from the Marked menubar item)
- Github-style line break mode
- More verbose link and footnote previews
- Popover on external links when held momentarily after click
- Copy URL/Validate link/Open in default browser
- New style: Amblin
- New style: Upstanding Citizen
- Option to disable header ID generation
- Include file syntax
- Force page break tag
- Filename and extension are passed as environment variables to custom scripts, allowing for different processors based on filetype
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Customer Reviews
Works smoothly and well
This is a great little app (and I really appreciate the low price!).
I write a fair amount in MarkDown, usually using TextMate's built-in previewer to check my progress. But this has three main drawbacks, each of which Marked overcomes. First, you have to manually update the Preview, which is slow and an extra keystroke. Second, and more crucially, the preview jumps back to the top of the document, making it largely useless when working on anything longer than a screen. Finally, it's more challenging to update the CSS used to 'dress' the text.
Once you get it set up, Marked sits in the background and watches the file, updating based on your changes in fairly short order (1-3 seconds), and if you tick the right box, jumping to where you changed it last. And it gives you a handful of CSS styles, and makes it easy to plug in your own custom stylesheet. My only grump is when updating the CSS the preview doesn't seem to auto-update, despite ticking the appropriate checkbox in the Preferences. Perhaps this'll be fixed soon.
And of course it lets me keep on using TextMate for the editor...or anything else for that matter. Hurrah for flexible integration.
#You'll Love It
I held off on this one for a long time. How could a markdown previewer really be that useful? Most editing apps do have their own preview, after all.
Believe me, you'll find new uses for it all the time. You'll find entire days disappearing as you create your own CSS styles to apply. You'll love the almost-live preview as you work through more complicated bits of formatting.
I've gone so far as to associate this app with all my text files. After all, most of the time I am reading the content of a file, first. If I need to append or edit, that's just a keystroke away to launch my editor (be sure to check out *Byword*, or the author's own *NVALT*).
As someone who has to email long, structured instructions to team members, learning markdown and buying this app were the best choices I ever made. Every draft gets routed through here first. And the output is nicer than one can create in **any** email program.
Believe it or not, this app is *fun*!
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Now: Previews Scrivener Markdown & Shows Current Edit Place!
This is a wonderfully useful app jam-packed with thoughtful goodness for the text-lovin,' Markdown writin' scribe, geek, nerd, or simplicity lover. Many thoughtful, craftsmanlike touches make this little app a joy to use. Now, with this latest release, I can write in Markdown in Scrivener and see the whole Binder update before my eyes in Marked. Yippee!
Plus, Marked now shows a little red line to indicate the paragraph where my cursor is in the source document (no matter the text application I use to write my original Markdown text -- ByWord, DevonThink, TextEdit, whatever). Brilliant!
Marked is an unbelievable value with great functionality, flexibility, reliability, utility, and a very light resource footprint. Highly recommended with an enthusiastic 5-stars!
- $3.99
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: Apr 08, 2012
- Version: 1.4
- Size: 6.7 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Brett Terpstra
- © 2012 Brett Terpstra
Requirements: OS X 10.7 or later
