QLMarkdown

by Phil Toland http://fiatdev.com

fixes and improvements by Michael Dominic K. http://www.mdk.org.pl

Introduction

QLMarkdown is a simple QuickLook generator for Markdown files. It renders a preview of the selected Markdown file using Discount -- a C implementation of John Gruber's Markdown.pl script.

To update to the latest version of discount run ./discount-config/update-discount.sh

For more information on Markdown see http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/.

Installation

Simply copy QLMarkdown.qlgenerator to ~/Library/QuickLook or /Library/QuickLook.

To uninstall, drag QLMarkdown into the trash.

Downloads

Source code is available at http://github.com/toland/qlmarkdown.

You can download a binary release from http://github.com/toland/qlmarkdown/archives/master.

License

The QLMarkdown code is distributed under the same terms as Discount. See the file discount/COPYRIGHT for more information.

Version History

Version 1.3 - Jan 26, 2012

• Major update of discount markdown engine

Version 1.2 - Oct 4, 2009

• Work around a conflict with MacVim (thanks to godDLL)
• Support for .mdml extension (alanhogan)
• CSS that mimics Apple's ADC styling (jiho)

Version 1.1 - Feb 11, 2009

• Adding a little bit of CSS styling. (mdk)
• Replace the Perl markdown renderer with a native C one (discount). (mdk)
• Conform to public plain-text. Will make spotlight index the file contents. (mdk)
• Added support for .md file extension (sant0sk1)

Version 1.0 - July 15, 2008

• Initial release.