Texts vs Abricotine
When comparing Texts vs Abricotine, the Slant community recommends Texts for most people. In the question“What is the best WYSIWYG Markdown editor?” Texts is ranked 10th while Abricotine is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose Texts is:
Unfortunately, this is a global setting for save (it can open any dialect)
Specs
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Pros
Pro Supports multiple Markdown dialects
Unfortunately, this is a global setting for save (it can open any dialect)
Pro Immediate Markdown rendering and preview
Texts immediately renders the formatted Markdown as you are typing it inside the text box. It's quite similar to a WYSIWYG editor.
Pro Imports and exports many formats
HTML, Word, TeX, PDF, ePUB, OPML.
Pro Works on Mac OS X and Windows
Pro Spell checker
Spell checker has been integrated from openoffice (or libreoffice); The dic file is not really recent bet can easily be updated.
Pro Free and open source
Pro Table of contents is populated with links
The table of contents pane has links in it, which makes clicking through to the section you want really easy.
Pro Readable single-pane inline preview editor
Inline preview is well formatted and easy to read, making it a good choice for single-pane editing.
Cons
Con Overwrites standard Markdown
Editing a preexisting Markdown document overwrites standard markup in it (for example, interpreting headings marked with leading "#"s and rewriting them with a trailing underscore line), adds extra blank lines between all paragraphs, and adds extra spaces at the head of unordered-list items.
Con Spell checking is not activated by default
There's a built-in spell checker which is not activated by default and is quite hidden.
Con Limited choice of built-in themes
You can download the CSS for these themes and create your own, but would be nice to have more flavors (e.g. GitHub)
Con No word count in older versions
Word count is present in Texts 0.21, at least.
Con Only single file editor
There is no ability to edit folder with markdown files
Con No package
Must be run from the file directly or built from source.