Markdown Discuss - Dec 2012 - standalone markdown

Hi

Is it possible to run Markdown the app standalone, that is, not as part 
of a webserver.  So the model would be write a file in Markdown and then 
use the Markdown app to convert the file into (x)html for local browsing 
in a browser.

I want to learn Markdown before I have to go through the pain of setting 
up a webserver.  I have been trying to get jetty working on Fedora 16 
but keep getting errors.  For the moment I would just need a webserver 
on my development machine that the Internet doesn't see.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Best,
Mike

I put a copy of the basic perl script in TextWrangler's 'Unix
filters' folder*, renamed it as 'Convert Markdown to HTML.pl', and
assigned it a keyboard shortcut of Ctrl-H.

So, when I type Markdown-style text** in TextWrangler and hit Ctrl-H, it
immediately converts to HTML. If I have selected a portion of the text, only
that portion gets converted; otherwise everything. No server involved. And
subject to Undo.

In like manner, I use html2text.py (renamed as 'Convert HTML to
Markdown.py' and assigned Ctrl-M) to convert in the other direction.

- Tom

*I'm using an old version of TextWranger, v3.5.1. I think in v4 this
arrangement got changed; see the documentation.
**http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/


On Dec 13, 2012, at 5:40 PM, mike wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Is it possible to run Markdown the app standalone, that is, not as part of
a webserver.  So the model would be write a file in Markdown and then use the
Markdown app to convert the file into (x)html for local browsing in a browser.
> 
> I want to learn Markdown before I have to go through the pain of setting up
a webserver.  I have been trying to get jetty working on Fedora 16 but keep
getting errors.  For the moment I would just need a webserver on my development
machine that the Internet doesn't see.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Best,
> Mike
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