It supports export as HTML or PDF.The application was built for Mac OS X so takes advantage of many Mac OS features. Markdown Pro now lets you add custom templates to the in built selection of templates. I’ve previously mentioned Markdown Pro which has been recently updated, this two pane editor allows you to write your document in one pane whilst giving you an instant preview of how the document will look. As you might expect BBEdit is Mojave ready. As an aside I always get updates from the BBEdit site rather than the Mac AppStore since the AppStore version has a couple of limitations imposed by the Apple submission guidelines. I mainly use BBEdit and regard it as the “gold standard” but I keep an eye out for other markdown editors.

TeX-like math syntax, including $$.$$, \, $.$, and (optionally) $.$ blocks.I use markdown extensively on my websites, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML allowing you to build HTML documents in an easily readable form.

MacDown provides various tools that add additional processing to the rendered HTML, including:

You can find all the available configurations in MacDown’s Preferences pane.

It also supports lots of non-standard syntactic features, including the very widely-used fenced code blocks with language identifiers. This makes MacDown’s live preview both efficient and very configurable. Hoedown is used internally to render Markdown into HTML. You can also provide custom CSS for PDF and HTML rendering to get the exact style you're looking for. It uses the Hoedown parser meaning it's both efficient and highly configurable, including syntax highlighting in fenced code blocks with language identifiers, TeX-like math syntax, GFM task lists, Jekyll front-matter, and more. MacDown is heavily influenced by, the seemingly defunct, Mou offering a similar editor and live preview interface. An open source Markdown editor for OS X, released under the MIT License.

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