An online Urdu markdown editor written with AngularJS | انٹرنیٹ پر مبنی ٹیکسٹ ایڈیٹر

Live demo at https://hazrmard.github.io/Urdown.

For documentation in Urdu, go to https://hazrmard.github.io/Urdown/#?src=.%2Fdocs%2Furdown.md.

For documentation in English, go to https://hazrmard.github.io/Urdown/#?src=.%2Fdocs%2Furdown_english.md&dir=ltr.

Urdown (Udru + Markdown) is an online markdown editor with preference for right-to-left languages like Urdu. It supports left-to-right languages as well. It can embed blocks of left-to-right languages like English by enclosing them in three commas ,,, (in new lines). In addition, Urdown suports shortcodes for HugoWiki hugo theme. Embedding text in {{%rtl|ltr}}TEXT{{%\rtl|ltr%}} will also produce directed output. The rest of the markdown rules are the same as Showdown.js.

Urdown is a fully client-side app that can:

• Render markdown instantly,
• Load markdown files from a URL,
• Load markdown files from disk,
• Save markdown files to disk,
• Export rendered markdown as PDF (using browsers' save-to-pdf ability),
• Export markdown as HTML,
• Switch between day/night modes,
• Switch between edit/read modes.

In addition Urdown can render markdown files passed as URL arguments:

https://hazrmard.github.io/Urdown/#?src=URL_TO_MARKDOWN_FILE&editMode=[true|false]&nightMode=[true|false]&dir=[ltr|rtl]

Where [true|false] is a placeholder for either true or false, and [ltr|rtl] is a placeholder for either rtl (default, right-to-left) or ltr. A possible use for this is to add that link in an iframe on another site to render Urdu markdown without having to mess with HTML tags etc.

Markdown is a lightweight way of formatting text so that it can be easily converted into HTML for display on web pages.

There are several excellent Urdu keyboards available. I use a phonetic keyboard that can be found here. For convenience, you can quickly switch between languages on your computer by using Alt+Shift (Windows) and Command+Space or Command+Option+Space (Mac).

For Chrome users, you can add the Google Input Tools extension that allows you to use phonetic and standard Urdu keyboards on your browser.

I have tested Urdown on Internet Explorer 11, Edge, and Chrome 53. The best experience, by far, was on Chrome.

There are several venues for contributing:

• Add a new user interface language. To do that duplicate static/ui/english.json and name it to language of choice (in english). Then translate all strings on right hand side into your language. Then add your language option to js/urdown.js in the UILANGS variable at the top.
• Add auto-scrolling feature. Currently you have to manually scroll down both the input and output panes to edit text longer than page height. A feature where the output pane scrolls to the corresponding location of the cursor on the input pane would be amazing.