Discovering... MarKlown!
For many years, I've been trying to make writing for the web simpler, less technical and more free of all kinds of markup or markdown dictates.
What I discovered is that by starting from the essence, the pure, unballasted text, suddenly new, unexpected and exciting possibilities arose. Solutions that are simply not visible for those who stay on the well-trodden path.
What is MarKlown?
1. HTML made easy!
2. scalable from simple novel-writing style to powerful html/css editor.
3. No more <p> and </p> tags (paragraph) to type! No <br>, nor other trick to start a new line.
4. Behaves like a dependable typewriter.
5. Works with any simple text editor. (If you can add expansion snippets for it, eg. Espanso)
6. My preferred editor: Geany. Can be made into a comfortable, non-distracting writer's friend. But the main reason for choosing Geany: its very handy, easy and fast html snippets. eg. just type 'b' + Tab, result: <b>%cursor%</b> (= bold, with live cursor blinking in between <b> and </b>)
7. MarKlown has been tested with multiple browsers: Brave, Chromium, Firefox, Opera, Web (Epiphany).The live preview in any of these is almost exactly the same! And so will be the final website.
8. Time to give away the top secret: Add 'white-space: pre-line;' preferably to body or main in the stylesheet.
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9. No more secrets!
MarKlown makes writing static pages a real joy!
Give it a try and become a freed writer!
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses, and all the king's men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
the source looks like this traditionally:
But with MarKlown, it looks like this in source:
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A Miraculous Sandwich
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing
dolore magna aliqua.
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation
nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit
dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.
Traditionally:
Again, in Marklown the source is:
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These short examples aren't maybe that impressive, but try to visualize a whole page of html...This is the most liberating discovery in all my years of web writing!
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