ImageWriter printouts honored the Gutenberg commands, and a few print shops were set up to print books directly from the marked up text. For example, I included benzene ring structures in a report about dioxins, that was written in Gutenberg. Relatively sophisticated formatting and layouts could be entered using markups much like the current ones, and graphics could be created as well. Long ago, in Apple II days, I used a text editor named Gutenberg. As a note, there is a lot more to Markdown and MultiMarkdown than just bold and italic text, but you get the idea.If I have extensive writing/edits, I just open the document in my preferred Markdown editor. Personally, I’ve found that it is more troublesome to remember these TE/KM shortcuts than it is to add the code manually, so I just do that. There are also some TextExpander snippets and Keyboard Maestro shortcuts out there to assist writing Markdown in a plain text editor that doesn’t support the syntax (command-b, command-i, etc.) directly, such as is the case with DEVONthink. When these documents are opened in another text editor, all the Markdown code is visible. Folding Text has some interesting Markdown features in that it will format the text and hide the code, so the text will look like the bold and/or italic text in a RTF document (no visible ‘*’). Many of the OS X editors (Byword, Ulysses III, iA Writer) will bold the text or add emphasis with command-b and command-i and the text will appear on screen as bold and italic text. I know because I’ve purchased most of them, especially on iOS! I’ve become a bit of a text editor junkie, even though I am really not a prolific writer. There are many text editors available today that really make using Markdown easy. Sort of like Neo being able to view the Matrix when in code. Although I will add that after I used Markdown for a while, for the most part I no longer needed to think about the syntax when writing nor did I need the preview to see the formatting. Are you aware of other editors that do this too? Thanks. PS: I am just now starting to look at this.
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