View markdown files offline [closed]

Answer 1

Check out Haroopad. This is a really nice #markdown editor. It is free and available for multiple platforms. I've tried it on Mac OSX.

Answer 2

From now I use http://marxi.co/. Marxi.co has online and offline version.

Answer 3

I just installed https://github.com/ypocat/gfms. It does a very good job rendering github flavored markdown. It detects changes in your markdown, so you just put your browser and editor side-by-side. It is Node.js, so it should work fine on any platform.

If you have Node.js is installed, the installation is simple:

1. sudo npm install -g gfms
2. gfms --port 9999 (in your project directory)
3. http://localhost:9999/ (open with any browser)

Answer 4

I found MarkView Google Chrome extension pretty useful, actually it's working like a charm:

MarkView is a Chrome extention for editing and viewing markdown file with an outline view, support multiple table format styles, code block syntax highlight and Github Flavored Markdown.

Features:

1. Editing and Viewing markdown file in web page style.
2. Auto reload local file when file is changed (Post-installation: select "Allow access to file URLs" option in chrome://extensions/)
3. Show outline beside the content in scrollable way
4. Have buttons for GoTop, ViewSource and GoBottom
5. Support Github Flavored Markdown table styles and code highlight.
6. Highlight the code area for programming languages(eg. ```ruby)
7. Support web pages printing with decent outlook(Chrome->File->Print...)
8. Responsive: when the window size small than 940px, outline section will automatically hidden; resize bigger than 940px, outline section will display.
9. MarkView will view all markdown files except those under raw.github.com because that subdomain only displays the source.

More features have been added to MarkView:

1. WYSIWYG markdown editor
2. Themes and Code Styling Selection
3. Support Footnotes¹ ↩
4. Instant Slides Presentation

5. Document Custom Styling

   • Add Theme CSS and Select
   • Add Code Style and Select
   • Write CSS, Save and Run

Answer 5

pandoc is a nice Text-To-Text conversion tool that solves the problem of offline visualization of your Markdown. Just issue:

pandoc -f markdown -t html README.md > README.html

Answer 6

You may use Scribefire Next.

It's a Mozilla Firefox browser plugin. Just install the extension and fire up Firefox. Customize your toolbar and place the Scribefire shortcut to it. And since it's a browser plugin, you can use it in Mac, Linux and Windows.

When you want to write in Markdown mode, just click Edit Code from the Scribefire window.

Now to meet your purpose, go to Edit Code mode and copy all the texts and paste it to your .md file and upload.

There is no live preview feature for this, you have to toggle Edit Code and Edit Visually to preview your text.

I'm using it in my Linux Mint box:

Update:

It's year 2014, need to add some other awesome tool here for other readers and researchers. Just recently used Brackets + Markdown Preview Extension.