Markdown has taken off in a big way, and I use it in everything from publishing posts on websites to documentation in my code to writing fiction. I love the descriptive nature of the formatting, and that all of the files are in plain text! In many cases, however, I like to write in different barebones tools- but I can’t see how it looks when it’s formatted without opening it in some other editor. I like the editors that have the real-time preview, but my favorite ones to write in don’t have that facility.
On the mac, there is a application called Marked. It is a Markdown Previewer. Now, you might think as I did- what is the use in having something that’s not an editor? It just previews? But after you get further into markdown and the various tools out there, it quickly becomes evident that such a tool is invaluable if not essential.
Enter my project for NANY 2015: MarkdownBuddy
The first release slipped in just a bit under the deadline. Download it here. And comment on the project at DonationCoder.
Installation
With .NET 4.5 installed, unzip application to location and run.
Feature Map
Implemented
- Allows you to pick a file to be previewed
- Allows the preview to be refreshed manually
- Specify an opacity of the window
- Allow the changing of the background of the window
- Allow the export of the parsed document
- Allow the user to choose to update the document when it is saved
Planned
- Allow the user to specify whether the window should always be on top or not
- Allow the changing of options in the parsing of the document
License Terms
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to use the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use and copy the software package, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do the same. Distribution and publication shall be allowed also without direct cost to the user. In all cases shall the distribution of the software be subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software, and a link to the original site for the software (http://www.thinkshui.net/software/markdownbuddy/) shall be included in prominent view on any site where a download is hosted.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Note that if you paid money for this software, ask for it back!