Learn how to generate PowerPoint slides straight from an R Markdown document. Plus, create interactive HTML slides in R with the xaringan package.

Many of the TUAW writers (and readers!) are fans of John Gruber's Markdown, so we tend to review both iOS and Mac apps that support Markdown. If you don't know what Markdown is or how to use it ...

It can handle most HTML tags and anything that isn’t able to be converted to Markdown is passed through as HTML. The first phase of the process is parsing the input into a syntax tree. To parse ...

This Chrome extension lets you compose emails in Markdown, and then convert it to HTML to use in Gmail. Gmail doesn’t offer you much in the way of formatting to make your emails look more ...

MarkdownPad is a free Markdown editor for Windows that that can convert Text to HTML or XHTML for you easily. Dwnload the free version here.

Markdown is a Perl script that converts plain text into Web-ready HTML; it's also a shorthand syntax for writing HTML tags without needing to write the actual HTML. Markdown has been around for a ...

A new app, MarkdownMail, lets you send HTML-formatted e-mail from your iOS device, via the Markdown formatting language.

WriteUp is useful and easy to use, and writers who want to compose short notes or long essays will find it nearly ideal.