[drew-y]

The big thing I would like to see in Markdown editors like this is a pdf export. It'd be nice to be able to send a rendered markdown document to people without them needing to open a web browser to view it. There is a similar open source project here: https://github.com/dvcrn/markright

[stdbrouw]

It'd be nice to have it be part of the editor, but `pandoc document.md -o document.pdf` does the trick.

http://pandoc.org/getting-started.html

[biggest_lou]

That's fine for a single document, but definitely doesn't work for an entire directory structure worth of Markdown files

[stdbrouw]

Are you serious? Try `ls *.md | xargs -I {} pandoc {} -o {}.pdf`

[thearn4]

Interesting - is the idea behind free markdown desktop editing with PDF export to basically replace traditional document editors like Word or Open/Libre Office?

I'm used to thinking about markdown as just a tool for lazy people (like me) to get basic HTML formatting. Particularly for Github READMEs, and the like. LaTeX is the document preparation system that I really use (largely because of publication expectations, but I'm also pretty comfy with it at this point). The learning curve is steep.

[drew-y]

For me markdown is easier and quicker to use than WYSISWYG editors. Combined with styling from CSS you can make some really nice looking documents from it. If I where able to export to pdf I'd definitely use it instead of word.

[srpeck]

GitHub Flavored Markdown editor with PDF export: https://github.com/srpeck/markdowned

The editor happens to fit in an HTML file <9k (excluding the behemoth browser...:).

[127001brewer]

Both of these like promising applications, but I've just been using the Atom IDE (https://atom.io/) with the "Markdown Preview" and "Markdown to PDF" packages.

[drew-y]

I use "Markdown Preview" as well. I couldn't get "Markdown to PDF" to properly apply the styling though.

[fnordsensei]

I use Ulysses (http://www.ulyssesapp.com/) but then again, it's mostly for straight up text writing. As far as I know, it doesn't support code highlighting.

[erusev]

We are working on PDF export - it's possible that it will be a part of the 1.0.

[bradgessler]

Any plans for front matter support?

[stronglikedan]

Not open source or free ($14.95), but MarkdownPad Pro[0] has a PDF export feature.

[0] https://markdownpad.com/buy.html