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When comparing LightPaper vs Stylo, the Slant community recommends LightPaper for most people. In the question“What are the best Markdown editors for OS X?” LightPaper is ranked 21st while Stylo is ranked 43rd. The most important reason people chose LightPaper is:
Can be extended to support Multimarkdown, GFM-style code fences with syntax highlighting and even math rendering.
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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 Flexible styling using CSS
Markdown source styling is really flexible because the App relies on CSS.
Pro CSS style definitions editable inside the editor
There is no need for complicated theme manipulation steps to create a style, everything is right in the editor along with the Markdown source.
Pro CommonMark support
CommonMark Markdown standard got a lot of traction lately and it's good to use an editor that conforms to it.
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 Pretty new
