![]() I'll want to get pretty fancy with this, ideally, with certain keywords applying 3 different styles, in sequence, based on line returns, etc. "bcq" "rft", etc.) and then, upon conversion, the template (or if I can / need to define my own preprocessing routines?) can expand these into the final blog HTML output, but leave the md/plain text more human-readable. Wondering if iA writer templates work in such a way that I can type small keyword strings of letters (i.e. rather than long-ish HTML tags, also not using snippets, unless I have to-again, for human-readability). Hoping to start a blog with a lot of styles(?) classes(?) not covered in Markdown (see attached layout), and wanted to use my own system of short character strings to keep the MD as human-readable as possible (i.e. iA Writer is the better product for markdown.First, I don't know much about code and templates but confident and ambitious in terms of being able to learn (and know it will take time.)-but feel free to ask about and/or correct any poor vocabulary or missassumptions I make here in trying to explain my goals. It is a pity really, I love writing in it.Īt this point, if you are interested in writing in markdown, you are encouraged to use iA Writer and not Ulysses. I am looking for a markdown editor and Ulysses doesn't support markdown well enough to make the grade. So, it has done some things very well, but it is not for me. It is a product which is getting a lot of attention and has some very vocal and rabid users. It is a great environment to write in, but it is not a great environment to write markdown in. It seems to struggle with supporting any of the markdown extensions, no check boxes, no tables, no inbuilt support for footnotes. In fact, Ulysses introduces a Markdown XL which is ill-defined. It supports Gruber's Markdown but doesn't support any of the enhancements made to it by others. Ulysses doesn't yet know whether it wants to be a markdown editor or not. IA Writer does all these things and does them well. iA Writer's multi-OS presence makes this mandatory. Concentrate your design focus on making markdown easier to write.If you are going to support MultiMarkdown, this is what the feature set will look like: From that decision, the rest of the feature set becomes understandable. In version 3.0, iA Writer decided to be a MultiMarkdown editor. iA Writer was quite lost with version 2.0 or Writer Pro as it was known. All of these things are not important to me. Tables, table of contents, footnotes, cross reference, citations, definition lists, math, metadata and a glossary are all supported by MultiMarkdown. What does full support for MultiMarkdown mean? I am sure that there are people who are excited by that. ![]() Ulysses has been busy making the iOS version universal. It has been enhanced with directory support and it has made the act of writing markdown better. IA Writer has been redesigned with full support for MultiMarkdown. Ulysses doesn't play a part in it anymore. All of the blog posts you see on is produced with a combination of Sublime Text 3 and iA Writer. So, I have effectively stopped using Ulysses. I use it when I am writing stuff which is not markdown based, but that doesn't happen too often. For my markdown based writing, I have switched from Ulysses to iA Writer. ![]()
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