Markdown vs WSYWYG

Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 2, 2013 at 07:34 PM

Funnily enough, I was about to mention Editorial, which is by far the most accomplished and powerful Markdown editor on iOS (and there are a lot of Markdown editors on iOS!). You can use it as a very powerful text editor, but it’s got a full Python-based scripting language as well, which is well-documented and easy to use.

It’s also that most satisfactory of Markdown editors - one that shows you markup plus effect of markup in a single screen (you can, of course, preview the final HTML output, too - it uses side-swipes for moving from screen to screen). Because of the elegant font, the combination of markup and output isn’t as confusing as it is in other editors that use this technique (I’m thinking of that wiki one, but I can’t remember its full name).

I’ve ditched my (many) other Markdown editors in favour of Editorial. Thoroughly recommended (not least because of the very powerful search function, with highlighting, multi-file search etc. etc.).