![]() ![]() Why I’m Getting a Second Master’s Degree from HEC Paris August 11, 2019.MMAT: My Teaching and Learning Approach January 31, 2020. ![]() What’s new in React 17: new features and improvements March 9, 2023.□□Leveraging Messengers for MVP Validation and Sales in Your Tech/IT Startup April 1, 2023.How to show all constraints on a Postgres table April 17, 2023.Adding constraint on a foreign key with node-pg-migration April 17, 2023.In addition, here is a handy Markdown cheatsheet. Syntaxįor the complete syntax guide, please refer to the original post and to the documentation for the particular Markdown flavor that you’re using, e.g., GitHub Flavored Markdown. The easier but less configurable approach is just to use one of the aforementioned apps which rely on Safari engine for rendering HTML and then printing it. Note: LeanPub utilizes the LaTeX technology which can be used directly for generating PDF files. For PDF generation, use the same apps as in the previous step.For LeanPub, just leave the Markdown files in the Dropbox folder, press ‘preview’ or ‘publish’ button and relax Export/convert Markdown to HTML with ByWord or Marked and paste the code into your WordPress post.Copy and paste your Markdown draft into Draft or Editorially web services for collaboration with friends or editors.Write 300–500 words (ByWord has a counter) for a blog post and about a thousand words for a chapter if you are writing a book.Start a ByWord (or iA Writer) document in a Dropbox folder, because you’ll be able to continue whenever you have a spare minute via its iPhone/iPad apps.Install WordPress or create a book on LeanPub.If you want to explore the Markdown web publishing, I recommend the following flow: I can use just the keyboard, enter focus mode and pour the words. That’s all good, but my main and favorite reason for using Markdown and maybe even the reason I wrote a book and started blogging more is that Markdown and its apps allow for distraction free writing. Robust conversion to and from HTML, the language of the web, without the extra junk code from cumbersome WYSIWYG editors and MS Word.Can be quickly edited in any text editor, e.g., Sublime Text 2 or Vim.Abundance of styles, themes and Markdown flavors, e.g., I can add my own custom CSS stylesheets to Marked.Plenty of apps and web services to choose from.In other words, we store formatting meta data in the text itself which is later converted by apps or online services into beautiful documents. So what is it? Markdown is a special syntax that consists of regular characters, e.g., #, *,, which in turn allow for rich formatting without interfering with text readability. Even the so called re-invented web publishing experience Medium doesn’t support Markdown, but many other services and apps including my favorites (ByWord and LeanPub) build their whole flow around Markdown! In fact, I’m such a huge fan of Markdown that I’m writing my daily journals in it as well as this blog post. However, she is not familiar with the powerful and convenient Markdown because it’s still a rather unknown approach to publishing except for an elite circle of early adopters and technology professionals. ![]() She is an experienced content and copy editor and has worked for magazines and book publishers. “What is a Markdown?” my editor asked me the other day. TL DR: Know and use Markdown because it’s fast and convenient. ![]()
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