On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Chip Warden <chip.war...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> As I was going through "Take Control of BBEdit," I ran across the "Try 
>> Markdown" section and decided to do just that. I find that while "Preview in 
>> BBEdit" works fine, choosing to preview in any browser displays only the 
>> raw, unformatted text in the browser. What's wrong?
>
> Hey John,
>
> I'm pretty sure there is nothing wrong. BBEdit's "Preview in BBEdit" command 
> understands Markdown, and renders it correctly. On the other hand, when you 
> "Preview in …" to send the document to another browser, the raw document is 
> sent to the browser. If you "View Source" in whichever browser you're using, 
> you'll see it's just the Markdown document. Browsers don't understand 
> Markdown, so they render the document as text. If you want to see what the 
> Markdown document looks like when rendered as HTML, you'll need to translate 
> it first (running the Markdown document through markdown.pl, for example) and 
> view the resulting html file in your browser.
>

FWIW, I use [Marked][] when previewing Markdown

I make an "open in Marked" script for BBEdit

        #!/bin/sh

        if [ "$BB_DOC_PATH" != "" ]
        then
                open -a Marked "$BB_DOC_PATH"
        fi

And assigned a keyboard shortcut for it.

Works great.

Marked is $4 on the Mac App Store.

("Disclaimer:" the developer of Marked is a friend/colleague, but I
don't get anything out of referring people to it, and although I was a
beta tester for it, I bought my own copy. After all, it's only $4.)

[Marked]: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/marked/id448925439?mt=12

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