Markdown Writer FX

An open source Markdown editor written in JavaFX 8.

For Markdown rendering it uses commonmark-java or flexmark-java, two Java implementations of the CommonMark specification.

Features

• Syntax highlighting in editor
• Keyboard shortcuts to insert Markdown (Bold, Italic, Code, Links, Images, Header, Lists, ...)
• Auto-indent lists
• Search and replace
• Project manager
• HTML preview
• HTML source preview
• Markdown AST view
• Multi-platform: Windows, Mac, Linux, ...

Requirements

Java 8 is required to run current releases. Java 9, 10 and 11 currently only supported for building.

Installation

Download markdown-writer-fx-0.12.zip and extract it to any folder.

Run:

• for Windows, bin/markdown-writer-fx.bat to start Markdown Writer FX
• and for Unix systems ./bin/markdown-writer-fx.sh to start Markdown Writer FX

from the project folder.

Building

Prerequisites are git and Java 8 in order to build Markdown Writer FX form sources.

• get the source, e.g. by cloning the official repo with: git clone https://github.com/JFormDesigner/markdown-writer-fx.git
• run ./gradlew assembleDist to create the distribution in the $project/build/distributions/ folder.

Changes

See Change Log

Credits

• Tomas Mikula for RichTextFX, ReactFX, WellBehavedFX, Flowless and UndoFX
• Mikael Grev for MigLayout and Tom Eugelink for MigPane
• Vladimir Schneider for flexmark-java Markdown parser
• Atlassian for commonmark-java Markdown parser
• Jens Deters for FontAwesomeFX
• The ControlsFX project
• Matthieu Brouillard for CSSFX
• Lea Verou, Golmote & more for Prism

License

Markdown Writer FX is open source licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License