Mark Text
Mark Text is a simple, elegant and open source Markdown editor.
Overview
Mark Text has several interesting options for users. It supports PDF and HTML formats for exporting documents; a real-time editor that hides the markup of the content; the possibility to copy text directly from the editor without formatting, formatted in HTML or in Markdown format.
Despite being a good Markdown editor, Mark Text has some drawbacks that can leave new users confused.
Sometimes the appearance of the content in the program is different from the appearance of the exported content, be it in HTML or PDF.
Another setback is, as in Notion, the difficulty of editing the Markdown content after the conversion made automatically by the application.
More information about Mark Text can be found at https: //marktext.app/.
Mark Text Markdown Support
Table 1.1 presents important information about the use of Markdown elements in Mark Text.
| Element | Support | Information |
|---|---|---|
| Titles | Yes | |
| Paragraphs | Yes | |
| Line breaks | Yes | As stated earlier, there is a notable difference when it comes to breaking the line in Mark Text, pressing the Enter key in the editor breaks a line, but that break is lost when the document is exported to HTML or PDF, so, use the blank spaces to the right of the line or the backslash \. |
| Bold | Yes | |
| Italic | Yes | |
| Blockquote | Yes | |
| Ordered lists | Yes | |
| Unordered lists | Yes | |
| Code | Yes | |
| Horizontal lines | Yes | |
| Links | Yes | There is also a discrepancy here regarding the rendering of links. The use of the less than < and greater than > signs appear literally within the Mark Text editor, but when the document is exported to HTML or PDF these signs disappear and the link is rendered correctly, so it's not that big of a problem. |
| Images | Yes | |
| Tables | Yes | |
| Fenced code blocks | Yes | Mark Text also supports syntax highlighting. |
| Footnotes | No | |
| Title Id | No | |
| Definition lists | No | |
| Strikethrough | Yes | Mark Text is compatible with both formatting types, using two tildes ~~word~~ and one tilde ~word~, in the application editor only the use of two tildes ~~ renders correctly, but after exporting, both formats work. |
| Task lists | Yes | |
| Emoji (copy and paste) | Yes | |
| Emoji (access codes) | Yes | |
| automatic URL Link | Yes | |
| Disable automatic link from URL | Yes | |
| HTML | Yes |