wysiwyg - markdown editor
Ever since Azarai switched to Django and Markdown i spent too much time trying to make a blog entry look nice. I don't know why but id definetly is too much for me type in some syntax, save and then have to refresh a browserview.
So ... as usual .. the lazy half of me just said: let some tool do that for you. So i created "Markie", my small WYSIWYG-Markdown editor.
Actually not really much of an archievement since it doesn't (yet) do much more than the following:
Features
Edit markdown in a left panel (didn't implement "select all" i just found out lol)
Preview the generated html in either a plain html renderer (no css) or
Preview the generated html in the iexplorer (windows only) using css
Allows you to select the "theme" (meaning more or less the css) to use for generation of the page
Either store the html only or the complete page (including css etc..)
Themes can easily be created by yourself. (just hava a look at the themes directory)
Allows you to move the preview panes so that you have all three views at once available (see screenshot)
DISCLAIMER: It works for ME. Doesn't mean it works everywhere. Consider ist an alpha with surely many bugs i didn't bother to find :-))
License & Donation
BSD, do whatever you want with it. IF you create some pages with Markie I appreciate You including some remark and link in the footer of the page.
If you enjoy using Markie, please considering making a small donation to support further development. See the Donation page for more information.
Downloads
Markie can be found here:
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latest sources <-- Use at your own risk ;)
- latest release
Installation and Requirements
Markie requires the markdown modules Markdown and of course Python . Unzip and run Markie.py




By: Kerim in
on 13 April 2009 at 16:40 Tommy said …
Any chance for an online demo? :)
on 17 April 2009 at 01:36 Kerim Mansour said …
Frankly i never thought about it. There are quite some online markdown editors and i wanted my editor to be theme-able. I will talk with Jens about it. Might be, that we add some rudimentary online demo that uses one specific theme.
on 23 April 2009 at 06:31 miko meltzer said …
Does toko content editor with fckeditor can do the work ?
on 31 July 2010 at 05:07 dieter said …
Hi there,
have you ever tried your ugly little peace of software on a real OS? Your ugly little peace of software may work on Windows, but not on a Posix. You can save the raw markdown file, but you can“ t save the *.html file. Saving a *.html file means: Deleting the complete markie folder with all its files. Do you want that?
on 17 August 2010 at 17:59 Luke Faraone said …
@dieter, nobody's forcing you to use the software.
Fyi, when saving on Ubuntu 10.04, I got the following traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Markie.py", line 358, in OnSaveCreatedPage
File "Markie.py", line 370, in OnMarkdown
File "Markie.py", line 400, in exportPage
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/shutil.py", line 140, in copytree
names = os.listdir(src)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'themes/default'
on 18 August 2010 at 01:31 Kerim Mansour said …
Thanks Luke,
i'll get some virtual machine running with ubuntu on it and have a look.
on 10 January 2012 at 04:13 gg said …
fy