Many of the TUAW writers (and readers!) are fans of John Gruber's Markdown, so we tend to review both iOS and Mac apps that support Markdown. If you don't know what Markdown is or how to use it, those ...

The App Store is chock-a-block with all manner of text editors, from full document suites which go a good way to emulating the bloated sack that is Microsoft Word, to code editors for programmers, to ...

Markdown is a Perl script that converts plain text into Web-ready HTML; it’s also a shorthand syntax for writing HTML tags without needing to write the actual HTML. Markdown has been around for a ...

This Chrome extension lets you compose emails in Markdown, and then convert it to HTML to use in Gmail. Gmail doesn’t offer you much in the way of formatting to make your emails look more attactive.

The Byword app allows you to use Markdown for text formatting. Markdown employs simple, easy-to-learn codes for formatting text to appear on the web. (Image via Byword) Some really geeky things end up ...

R Markdown is one of my favorite things about modern R. It offers an easy way to combine text, R code, and the results of R code in a single document. And when that document is rendered as HTML, you ...

The free and fully-featured Markdown editor for Windows allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, and then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). In short, ...

Markdown is a markup language that is based on a set of rules, such as 'putting a '#' at the beginning of a line makes it a heading' and 'enclosing a phrase with '**' makes it bold.' It was originally ...

MarkdownPad Pro is excellent, but you should try the free options before paying for it. HTML is the lingua franca of the Web. If you publish anything online, that’s the format your text will end up in ...

If you’ve ever wanted to spice up your iOS device’s e-mail messages with a little styled text, you’ve run up against one of the limitations of Apple’s mobile software. But if you’ve got proficiency ...