MAC Text Editors Tips Roundup

[mandy]

Text to HTML

When writing your own HTML is a pain, there are various ways of making the chore a little less tiresome.

John Gruber's Markdown is among my favorite tools of all time. Described as "a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers," it turns suitably formatted text into valid (X)HTML. This article (and almost everything else I write for the web these days) was written using Markdown in BBEdit.

To use it the same way, download Markdown and put it in ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Unix Support/Unix Filters. It should show up in your Unix Filters menu, and you can assign a keyboard shortcut to it in the Unix Filters palette.

One of the best features of Markdown is that it's designed to be readable even in an unconverted state. In other words, the plain text original should be almost as easy to read as the HTML alternative...

full article: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/20...ricks.html