Comments on: Daedalus Touch 1.2: Markdown, ePub and iOS5

By: goetz

goetz — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:08:52 +0000

Sounds like a good idea :) I put it on our list!

By: Richard Parker

Richard Parker — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:59:12 +0000

I’m liking Daedalus Touch so far. Would like to see a few more visual set up options, like the ability to colour individual sheets, as you could then use them as a kind of index card system for story outlines, scenes etc. You still can, but colour coding is useful option and I imagine not too difficult to implement in future upgrades?

Thanks!

By: goetz

goetz — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:08:59 +0000

Daedalus currently supports most the the features of Markdown (for a full rundown, see http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax). However, some features are only of limited support:
- Headers only work with the # in front (i.e., # Level 1 Heading, ## Level 2 Heading, …). Underlined headings are currently not supported.
- No nesting of block quotes or lists.
- Horizontal rule is only supported in ePub export (it is ignored in PDF export).
- No support for images.

Footnotes are not a feature of Markdown, but of MultiMarkdown. The next versions of Daedalus will hopefully bring much-improved support for Markdown and MultiMarkdown.

By: MiguelM

MiguelM — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:10:51 +0000

Hi there,
first of all, congrats for such a great app. I would like to go deeply on Markdown support because I’ve tried, for example, to insert footnotes and they are not displayed correctly.
Would you mind listing markdown’s syntax supported by Daedalus Touch?
Thank you very much

By: Johnny

Johnny — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:22:10 +0000

Hi folks, I was really excited to see the update and thx so much for markdown!
One thing I would like to see is RTF support. This seems the only way to get what I have been writing into Mellel (apart from reconverting over and over on the Mac itself)… Unfortunately, until there’s _proper_ bibliography support on iOS (which will not be in the near future or ever), this step is necessary for me (and others, I presume), because we have to add stuff from our fancy biblio managers and reformat in all kinds of styles…
And since you’re already implementing export options anyway (I can see why markdown to rtf is not the easiest thing to do), please add that one, I think you’d make a lot of people happy… (almost as happy as if you adopted the format as your basic one and allowed for italics via a context menu that pops up when a word or phrase is selected ;-))

By: Nienke Boomsma

Nienke Boomsma — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:40:57 +0000

Wow, that is awesome! Is Markdown Extra supported? Footnotes would be cool to have.

By: dirk

dirk — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:37:38 +0000

Our current button row is fully customizable – Most markdown features should be possible to set up.

By: Nienke Boomsma

Nienke Boomsma — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:11:09 +0000

Add a Markdown keyboard utility bar (like Writing Kit) and you’ve got yourself a customer! :)

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:50:37 +0000

Hello,

Just great !

But “The exporter will transform stack titles to chapters and sheet titles to sections, will generate a table of contents and also apply a nice layout/theme. ”

Does that mean I have to create a stack per chapter ?? Sounds weird.

i cated two stacks with two sheet titles for each and exporting as an epub didn’t generate the Table of contents.

Could you please be more detailed on the procedure ?

Thank you very luch,

Chris

By: Max Seelemann

Max Seelemann — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:17:52 +0000

If you have any suggestions on how we could make the PDF export more beautiful, then please just drop us a line to support@the-soulmen.com — we are seeking to improve that in one of the next releases.