Edito - iPad's missing Markdown text editor

Edito 1.2
iPad's missing Markdown text editor

Tech Tips

Edito comes with a simple, uncluttered interface and intuitive commands. They are all accessed through the top toolbar buttons, described below.

Toolbar Buttons

Documents: opens a drop down menu with a list of the documents present on the device, and the possibility to create a new blank document. See <Document Name> below for details about entering a new name for your document;

Save: simply saves the document to the iPad, in Edito's file format;

Mail: opens a drop-down menu with 4 options: mail text (the text in the window is attached to the body of the email), mail text file (the text is saved to a .txt file and placed in the email as attachment), mail HTML text (the converted HTML with default iPad mail styling is copied into the body of the email), and mail HTML file (the converted HTML is emailed as an attached document);

<Document Name>: type your Document's Name when creating a new document. Override with a new name to "save as";

Courtesy web: this feature comes very handy to go and fetch links off the web without leaving the app. This is really useful to include pictures that are in your web repository and for which you have a direct link (Flicker, MobileMe...);

Style: Edito comes with 9 styles installed. At the moment, it does not offer the possibility to use your own, but this is in the future plans;

View HTML converted file: this is the reason why you bought Edito - this button switches to the web rendering of the converted HTML file with the style chosen in the previous step.

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This brings to a brief help view consisting in an abbreviated Markdown Syntax, displaying the most frequently used commands. The other button displays the Credits and Aknowledgements

Sharing files

The easiest way to share files is to email them. Alternatively, you can use the iPad syncing facility to retrieve/delete files.

The file format

Edito's file format is specific to this app. It consists basically in a dictionary (a plist file) that is zipped. Why did we choose this format? In later versions, we are planning to include pictures and other types of linked files, as well as version control.

Styles

Edito comes with 9 styles to choose from to display your Markdown-converted file. Due to popular demand, you can now download these styles as a zip archive here.

Support

Cognoscens is a small engineering company located in Lyon, France. We do speak English (and French) and we will be delighted to hear from our users.
The easiest way to contact us about Edito is to email us at edito@cognoscens.com.

If you prefer, we are also trying to implement Twitter into our process chain, contact us on @davmendels,