What’s New?

The latest stuff

• Marked is now Lion-only for the time being
• Fenced code block support
• Convert alternate extended Markdown syntax (like Markdown Extra) to MMD
  • This means you can preview files written for other systems without using a custom processor.
• Handle Leanpub code inclusion syntax
• Merge and preview compiled Leanpub or mmd_merge-style index files
• Syntax for creating books and including external files
• Custom processor now accepts ~ (home dir) and additional arguments
• Printing options
  • Syntax for “force page breaks” when printing (<!--BREAK-->)
  • “HRs as page breaks” option for printing
  • Page break before h1 and/or h2 option
• Style updates
  • New style: Amblin by Erik Sagen
  • New style: Upstanding Citizen
  • Multi-Column style completely rebuilt
    • full parity with keyboard navigation and bookmarking available in other styles
    • column height adjusts to window height for horizontal-only scrolling
    • last column isn’t truncated
  • GitHub style updated to match the most recent design changes on GitHub
• Scrivener 2.0+ support
  • Drag a Scrivener project (.scriv) to Marked and it will be compiled and previewed
  • As with other documents, changes are updated live on save
  • When a Scrivener document is in the foreground, Command-E will open it in Scrivener
  • Large documents may take longer to refresh
  • A cache folder will be created in ~/Library/Application Support/Marked
• Scroll to first edit point on update
  • type “e” in preview even when this option is off to scroll to the first difference found since last update
• Automatic syntax highlighting option for code blocks in preview, multiple styles available
• Popover on external links
  • Copy URL/Validate link/Open in default browser
• Table of contents is fully keyboard navigable
  • Up/Down/j/k to navigate visible menu items
  • pressing space will focus a type-ahead field with QuickSilver-style matching to filter the list
  • Escape to dismiss TOC/reset the search field
• Set per-document default styles using a metadata header “Marked Style:”
  • reference styles by title, full path or CSS filename (valid custom styles work)
• Syntax highlighting/better display for source view (⌘U)
• CLI for running Marked from the command line (mark, installation instructions under “Help”)
• Github-style line break option (preserves line breaks in paragraphs)
• Option to disable automatic header ID generation
• Revamped interface, (Note: Source/Preview toggle is now in the title bar)
• More verbose link and footnote previews on hover
• Markdown reference guide (under “Help”) is a resizable, floating panel (stays on top when application is in foreground)
• Markdown reference includes basic MultiMarkdown syntax

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