How To Format Your Posts Using Markdown, BBCode, HTML

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The Discourse forum software does not seem to have a built-in reference for this, so I thought I’d start a reference for Keyboard Maestro forum users.

###How To Format Your Posts Using Markdown, BBCode, HTML
####References:

  1. Post by Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Discourse.org
  2. Markdown Reference at CommonMark.org

As Jeff says:

  • the Markdown implementation is very close to the standard at CommonMark.org
  • We support a subset of “common” BBCode.

###Markdown Applications for Mac

####Mou
http://25.io/mou/
A Markdown editor for developers, on Mac OS X. Features live preview, sync scroll, auto save, powerful actions, auto pair, custom themes and CSS, HTML and PDF export, enhanced CJK support and more. Beta is not ready for Mac OS Sierra yet.

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For beginners to Markdown, there is a helpful, “10 Minute Tutorial” at Reference #2 above.

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I use MacDown: The open source Markdown editor for OS X. — quite sufficient for my needs. And free.