Focus on Your Writing by Using Markdown Editors

Posted by sde on Mar 16, 2014 6:23 PM EDT
LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms
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Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004. It is designed to be easy-to-read and easy-to-write. Readability is at the very heart of Markdown. It offers the advantages of plain text, provides a convenient format for writing for the web, but it is not intended to be a replacement for HTML. Markdown is a writing format, not a publishing format.

Markdown is a minimal markup language and can be easily read with any text editor. There are powerful online Markdown editors. Further, there are syntax highlighting plugins available for standard text editors such as emacs, vim, and gedit. However, the focus of this article is to identify specially-developed editors which help authors fully exploit all of the advantages that Markdown has to offer.

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