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\title{Online Markdown Editor}



\author[1]{David Banys}%
\author[1]{Alberto Pepe}%
\affil[1]{Authorea}%


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  \date{April 25, 2026}


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\section*{Introduction to online markdown
editors}

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Online Markdown editors are increasing in popularity along with Markdown
itself. Since~2004, Markdown has been increasing in use as a more
functional and easier-to-write version of rich-text formatting. Markdown
is popular across the web and online Markdown editors will continue to
proliferate as long as there is interest in simple formatting for text
on the web.

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\section*{Advantages of online markdown
editors}

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Markdown makes it really easy to apply formatting to text. Markdown
covers the capabilities of HTML without the need for writing HTML tags,
which can be a little annoying.~

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As an example, to make an H1 heading in Markdown, you can simply write

\begin{quote}
\# some text
\end{quote}

and the markdown will render like this:

\section*{some text}\label{some-text}

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To accomplish the same thing in HTML would require

\begin{quote}
\textless{}h1\textgreater{} some text \textless{}/h1\textgreater{}
\end{quote}

not burdensome, but certainly not as easy as Markdown.

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\section*{Online Markdown editors}

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Some of the most popular online markdown editors are as follows:

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  \href{http://dillinger.io/}{Dillinger}
\item
  \href{http://markdown.pioul.fr/}{Minimalist Online Markdown Editor}
\item
  \href{https://markable.in/}{Markable}
\item
  \href{https://stackedit.io/editor}{StackEdit}
\item
  \href{http://www.authorea.com}{Authorea}
\end{itemize}

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\section*{Markdown for research
writing}

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\href{http://www.authorea.com}{Authorea}~is an online document editor
that has full Markdown support. Researchers are using Markdown more and
more for writing research papers and Authorea's support for Markdown
means that anybody writing technical or scientific documents may
incorporate as much Markdown as they want into their document.

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Authorea also renders the online Markdown environment beautifully to
HTML5 in the browser -- so documents are web-native and beautiful no
matter what.~

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\caption{{Rendered Markdown syntax in Authorea
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\section*{Further Reading}

{\label{311316}}

\href{https://www.authorea.com/users/87589/articles/167543-online-latex}{Online
LaTeX}

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