![]() The two main components of this system are the preview template, which consists of arbitrary HTML with placeholders for your blog entry contents, and the preview filter, which transforms the content of your post to simulate server-side transformations.īy default, MarsEdit uses a preview filter called “Convert Line Breaks,” which simulates the common behavior across many blog systems of converting blocks of text separated by two newlines into “paragraphs.” This is what enabled you to write in “Plain Text” mode with paragraph clumps, and have it appear in the preview window as paragraphs, even though strict HTML would treat those clumps as a contiguous block of text. MarsEdit supports a flexible preview system designed to simulate how your blog content will look after it is published to the site. Guideline 2: Set The Preview Filter To “Markdown” Alternatively, you can switch to Plain Text mode at any time by selecting Post -> Edit Plain Text. In MarsEdit’s preferences, you can opt to have posts open in “Plain Text” mode by default. ![]() In fact, you can type arbitrary text content in “Plain Text” mode and MarsEdit will not alter it, with one exception that I’ll get to later. ![]() In MarsEdit, “Plain Text” is a synonym for “unmodified markup.” It’s called Plain Text because that’s what the majority of users understand it to be useful for. Any Markdown content will be wrapped up in pure HTML tags, which prevents the Markdown from being rendered either by MarsEdit’s preview window or on your blog. There is no room within “pure HTML” for Markdown to exist. MarsEdit supports two modes of editing: “Plain Text” and “Rich Text.” It’s important to appreciate that in Rich Text mode, everything is converted to pure HTML before publishing to your blog. Here are some guidelines to follow when first setting up your blog in MarsEdit for editing with Markdown: Guideline 1: Edit In “Plain Text” Mode MarsEdit doesn’t have an explicit “Markdown mode,” but it does support Markdown through its flexible “Preview Filters” mechanism. Red Sweater Help / MarsEdit / Using Markdown with MarsEditįor years, MarsEdit has supported Markdown in a manner that makes it easy to write, preview, and publish to a blog without ever working directly with HTML or Rich Text.
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