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Add to SafariWhen comparing LightPaper vs MultiMarkdown Composer, the Slant community recommends MultiMarkdown Composer for most people. In the question“What are the best Markdown editors for OS X?” MultiMarkdown Composer is ranked 12th while LightPaper is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose MultiMarkdown Composer is:
Not many popular Markdown editors support MultiMarkdown syntax.
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Pros
Pro Extended markdown support
Can be extended to support Multimarkdown, GFM-style code fences with syntax highlighting and even math rendering.
Pro Advanced file-management built-in
Can browse and open files and even has a built-in fuzzy file search.
Pro Built-in preview
Pro PDF & HTML export
Pro Your own preview template is supported
You can create your own template that is aligned with your branding.
Pro Multimarkdown support
Not many popular Markdown editors support MultiMarkdown syntax.
Pro Multiple export options
You can export to HTML, PDF, LaTeX, RTF, OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, ePub, OPML.
Pro Table of Contents support
Generates a table of contents based on the headers in the Markdown file being worked on.
Pro Support for elastic tabstops
Elastic tabstops are used to align text automatically during writing. When there's a change in the text, MultiMarkdown Composer automatically aligns all lines both on the beginning and end of them.
Pro CriticMarkup support
Pro Optional synchronized scrolling
Hold a key down and get synchronized scrolling.
Pro Fast syntax highlighting
Pro Highly customizable
Pro Counts words, characters, lines
Pro Can show invisible characters
Cons
Con Crashed repeatedly and refused to open without crashing after theme installation
Con Spell checking needs to be activated every time you open a file
In order to activate the spell checker you have to do so every time you open a file in LightPaper. There's no way to leave this setting on by default.
Con Table of contents gets out of sync sometimes
If you keep the auto-generated table of contents open while you work it gets out of sync, meaning items in the table of contents (at the end) disappear until you restart the program.
Con The way the preview shows images is inconsistent
The preview is a bit inconsistent with images. Sometimes it shows the image correctly, sometimes it shows a blue question mark.
