tag:support.multimarkdown.com,2013-02-12:/discussions/suggestions/2778-multimarkdown-composer-3-suggestionsMultiMarkdown Software, LLC: Discussion 2018-10-19T08:27:34Ztag:support.multimarkdown.com,2013-02-12:Comment/370321702015-06-03T18:35:31Z2015-06-03T18:35:33ZMultiMarkdown Composer 3 Suggestions<div><p>Hey Fletcher,</p>
<p>MultiMarkdown Composer 3 is looking really fantastic, it's made
it one of the top Markdown editors I use and could become my
default for everything if it had a couple of additional
features.</p>
<p>I did a little bit of searching on these features but I
apologize if I missed a discussion or these are on your
roadmap.</p>
<ol>
<li>GitHub style code fencing with syntax highlighting. This would
be awesome in the editor, preview would be less important to me
since I use Marked. Since a ton of my notes are code examples and
snippets this would let me get my notes out of Atom and Sublime
with their less-than-perfect Markdown support.<br></li>
<li>I love that I can apply different styles to tables since it
lets me use a nice writing font for most of my note but use a
monospace font for tables, this is awesome! However, it would be
great if there was a way to designate that Markdown tables
shouldn't wrap since wrapped tables are both visually confusing and
hard to work with.<br></li>
<li>Is there a hotkey to move the cursor backward and forward
between cells? I love the way <a href="https://atom.io/packages/markdown-table-formatter">Markdown Table
Formatter</a> for Atom and <a href="https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Table%20Editor">Table
Editor</a> for Sublime Text bind all the hotkeys and features.
Auto-formatting on tab is also particularly nice.</li>
</ol>
<p>Keep up the great work, this is turning out beautifully and I'm
looking forward to picking up the Pro version when it gets
released!</p></div>Chris Whitetag:support.multimarkdown.com,2013-02-12:Comment/370321702015-06-03T18:57:25Z2015-06-03T18:57:25ZMultiMarkdown Composer 3 Suggestions<div><p>Thanks for writing in with your comments.</p>
<p>1) I don't intend to add syntax highlighting (for programming
languages, as I take your meaning) to the editor. MMD itself
already supports external syntax highlighters for HTML. This
<em>sort of</em> works for the preview, but doesn't update with
each key stroke -- only with a manual refresh (since most of the
javascripts trigger when a page is first loaded):</p>
<p><a href="http://fletcher.github.io/MultiMarkdown-4/fences.html">http://fletcher.github.io/MultiMarkdown-4/fences.html</a></p>
<p>2) I experimented with this several years ago -- wrapping some
text (e.g. plain text) but not tables leads to very poor usability.
If you need wide tables, I would recommend using transclusion and
editing the table as a separate file. You can change the line
length settings as needed.</p>
<p>3) I am experimenting with some more advanced options for tables
for the Pro version, but they aren't finished yet. Can't promise
anything until it's done.</p>
<p>Fletcher</p>
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<p>Fletcher T. Penney<br>
Manager, Founder<br>
MultiMarkdown Software, LLC<br>
<a href="mailto:admin@multimarkdown.com">admin@multimarkdown.com</a></p></div>Fletchertag:support.multimarkdown.com,2013-02-12:Comment/370321702015-06-03T20:19:45Z2015-06-03T20:19:45ZMultiMarkdown Composer 3 Suggestions<div><p>Hey Fletcher,</p>
<p>Thanks for your quick reply! It disappointments me a bit that
you don't want to do syntax highlighting on code blocks but it
isn't a deal breaker.</p>
<p>Working with large tables using transclusion is a fantastic
idea, thanks for that suggestion!</p>
<p>With or without advanced table features I'll be first in line
for Pro when you release it.</p></div>Chris Whitetag:support.multimarkdown.com,2013-02-12:Comment/370321702015-06-03T20:45:41Z2015-06-03T20:45:41ZMultiMarkdown Composer 3 Suggestions<div><p>Offering syntax highlighting is a rabbit hole -- first it's
HTML, then CSS, then Perl, then…. you get the point.</p>
<p>MultiMarkdown Composer is a tool for writing using MMD. It's not
designed as a programmer's text editor. There are too many other
tools for that, which are far better suited to that purpose.</p>
<p>But once again, you can also use transclusion if you want to
have separate files for code blocks (using a programming text
editor with the syntax highlighter of your choice), and include
that source inside a fenced code block in your MMD file.</p>
<p>F-</p>
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<p>Fletcher T. Penney<br>
Manager, Founder<br>
MultiMarkdown Software, LLC<br>
<a href="mailto:admin@multimarkdown.com">admin@multimarkdown.com</a></p></div>Fletchertag:support.multimarkdown.com,2013-02-12:Comment/370321702015-06-03T21:43:04Z2015-06-03T21:43:04ZMultiMarkdown Composer 3 Suggestions<div><p>I can understand that, I would never actually write code in a
Markdown editor but I do copy tons of snippets and code examples
into my notes for reference and syntax highlighting makes it much
easier to reference. I get where you're coming from though.</p></div>Chris White