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Add an option to use the Showdown GUI for editing or adding content.
It is BSD-licensed javascript that shows the rendered Markdown (or HTML) while editing.
A demo is at <http://www.attacklab.net/showdown-gui.html>
(I read about this on the markdown mailing list.)
> [[Wikiwyg]] also can provide a nice GUI for editing, although it would
> need to be expanded to support markdown. The benefit compared to showdown
> is that it provides a GUI for editing with widets for italics, etc,
> compared to showdown which still leaves input in markdown and seems more
> geared to a fast preview of the html. --[[Joey]]
> Since we have semi-working wikiwgy and it's better, I'm considering this
> todo item as [[done]] or rather, will-not-be-done..
>> Given the unfortunate state of affairs for the wikiwyg project, could it
>> be worthwhile to consider this option again? It seems to have a companion
>> product (wmd) with formatting widgets and a live preview pane, that is
>> promised to be MIT licensed as of the next release.... --Chapman Flack