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This is cool. Is there anyway you could get markdown (or some similar format) to work with it. Essentially this (http://mangomarkdown.com/ http://mangomarkdown.

This is cool. Is there anyway you could get markdown (or some similar format) to work with it. Essentially this (http://mangomarkdown.com/ http://mangomarkdown.com/) but open source. That would be awesome!

rcruzeiro 13y ago
It's certainly an interesting challenge to make the plugin output markdown and I have also considered it. I think that if there are people willing to contribute to this feature we could do it.
- tracker1 13y ago
  I think it may well be worthwhile to do so... In the past, I used pandoc to go from html segments to markdown in order to scrub/cleanup imported input... the eventual goal was to support markdown as a base input in the editor, with a side-by-side view. I like markdown a lot, but I think the point is to "learn" markdown, and maybe an editor with a side-by-side preview is better if that's your target? The point of markdown is to be a slightly enhanced text input.
- Jonovono 13y ago
  Cool! Ya, I have a project that is on the back burner I am planning to work on at some point in the near future that I would like to use. I have started playing around with Codemirror and the newish texteditable HTML tag to see what could be done! I like githubs flavor of markdown, because I would like the ability to perhaps make todo lists (and maybe other things that may be useful).
teleclimber 13y ago
I'm curious: what is the point of markdown if you're using a specialized visual editor to write it?
- extra88 13y ago
  Markdown is still a simpler, more lightweight markup than HTML. Storing text in Markdown is good when conversion is not just to HTML but other formats (e.g. EPUB). Even if the text is always going to be converted to HTML, it would make changing the HTML output more straightforward.
  - teleclimber 13y ago
    Thanks, makes sense. I definitely like Markdown's simplicity, but sometimes it feels limiting because the content I am creating includes block elements and special styles that are not in markdown's vocabulary (like a block for a warning).

rcruzeiro 13y ago

It's certainly an interesting challenge to make the plugin output markdown and I have also considered it. I think that if there are people willing to contribute to this feature we could do it.

tracker1 13y ago
I think it may well be worthwhile to do so... In the past, I used pandoc to go from html segments to markdown in order to scrub/cleanup imported input... the eventual goal was to support markdown as a base input in the editor, with a side-by-side view. I like markdown a lot, but I think the point is to "learn" markdown, and maybe an editor with a side-by-side preview is better if that's your target? The point of markdown is to be a slightly enhanced text input.
Jonovono 13y ago
Cool! Ya, I have a project that is on the back burner I am planning to work on at some point in the near future that I would like to use. I have started playing around with Codemirror and the newish texteditable HTML tag to see what could be done! I like githubs flavor of markdown, because I would like the ability to perhaps make todo lists (and maybe other things that may be useful).

teleclimber 13y ago

I'm curious: what is the point of markdown if you're using a specialized visual editor to write it?

extra88 13y ago
Markdown is still a simpler, more lightweight markup than HTML. Storing text in Markdown is good when conversion is not just to HTML but other formats (e.g. EPUB). Even if the text is always going to be converted to HTML, it would make changing the HTML output more straightforward.
- teleclimber 13y ago
  Thanks, makes sense. I definitely like Markdown's simplicity, but sometimes it feels limiting because the content I am creating includes block elements and special styles that are not in markdown's vocabulary (like a block for a warning).