Are there text editors that can be used to create markup languages (like markdown, rest and such?)

I'm becoming more interested in markdown and rest for documentation/requisites in projects, but some people in the team aren't that techie to use and remember these markups. It's going to be a bad move to just adopt them when they're used to OpenOffice fil开发者_如何学Goes.

There is a visual editor for Latex, named Lyx, that is WYSIWYM and WYSIWYG, but I think Latex syntax is too complicated for this task (although the Lyx editor idea is exactly what I'm looking for).

But if there's a good looking editor for markdown/rest that they could use, this approach would be a good idea, using rest/markdown for documentation instead of *.odt files which is what we use by now. That way, I can commit, diff and do a lot of stuff with this documents, convert them to pdf, html and a bunch of different formats. They are just plain text files. Lyx does this to Latex, I'm interested in one that can do the same but for markdown/rest.

Anyone know if there are text editors that can accomplish this? I'm interested in Linux desktop variants.

If anyone have some experiences doing this move with non-techie people, please share your experiences.

Thanks!

(I know there are some solutions like wmd, but for web. What about a gnome desktop alternative?)

PS: I would like that these editors would just save .markdown files, and not a strange intermediary format.

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ReText editor (sf.net) is a simple text editor for Markdown syntax.

Ubuntu users (10.04 and higher) can install ReText via ppa:mitya57.

Review: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/retext-text-editor-that-supports.html

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A detailed description of the following apps will cause this post to become very lengthy. So I will use the following codes to denote some common features: ​

• G: GitHub Flavoured Markdown

• M: Mathematical formual syntax support

• L: Live Preview

• C: Syntax highlighting for code

• E: Export to various formats

• S: Custom Styling i.e custom css for html etc.

• P: Support for plugins

• F: Free

• D: Active development

Check out any of the following:

1. Remarkable

simple, elegant, feature-rich D F L G S P M C E(pdf, html)

2. ReText

simple, supports both restructured text and markdown D F M P E(html, odt, pdf)

3. UberWriter

minimal and lightweight F C M E(pdf html rtf)

5. Typora

simple, elegant F(while in beta) D G C M L E(html pdf epub docx odt etc.)

6. Haroopad

feature-rich, beta editor for blogging and mailing, import many formats F G L M E(html)

7. Mark My Words

simple F D L E(pdf html)

8. Gitbook Editor

For documentation, digital writing and publishing D F G L C M E(html pdf epub mobi)

9. Abricotine

editor based on web technology L F D G C E(html) M S

10. GhostWriter

simple, distraction-free, robust F G D E(html, other formats by extensions), S

11. Caret

minimal, robust D L G C E(pdf) M S

13. Elegant Markdown Editor (EME)

minimal, simple D L G C E(pdf) M

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There's a visual studio plugin for that, but you're probably just better writing a script to translate the output OO files to html, then to markdown with a tool like Pandoc.

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The best I've seen so far is a Gedit plugin. There's a plugin for markdown as well.

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If you have a Mac, there is a fork of Notational Velocity that does what you describe. (You might be able to use the source in a GNOME app if you feel like taking the time to do it yourself.)