I have created a plugin for RapidWeaver that adds support for the well known Markdown structured text format.

Since Markdown uses a plain text format with embedded markup, Markdown files are highly readable text files, but can be also transformed into HTML markup. For detailed documentation of the Markdown syntax, please refer to the Markdown Website.

Optionally, the plugin also allows you to use SmartyPants to apply typographical goodies to your text, for instance replacement of quotes and dashes. For detailed information on SmartyPants, please refer to the SmartyPants Website.

MarkdownPlugin is released as open-source under the MIT license. I will publish the source code on this website soon.

Installation

The installation of the plugin is simple:

  • download MarkdownPlugin
  • unzip the plugin and copy the plugin to ~/Library/Application Support/RapidWeaver

After restarting RapidWeaver, you will be able to add a new Markdown page type to your RapidWeaver project.

Warning

This is my first RapidWeaver plugin, and the code may still contain bugs. You are using MarkdownPlugin at your own risk, backup your work before using MarkdownPlugin.

Update Replaced plugin with version that contains a slightly updated documentation, but is unchanged besides that.