Winona, Minnesota – Independent developer, author and blogger, Brett Terpstra today is pleased to announce the release of Marked 2 for OS X. Marked is an app which allows you to preview your Markdown (in any flavor) as you write in your favorite text editor. It tracks your file changes and updates the preview as you go, even automatically scrolling to the point in the file where you’re currently working. Marked 2 expands the feature set greatly.

Marked 2 ($11.99) includes a rewrite of the file watching system for speed and accuracy. It speeds up just about every part of the app, making it even easier to get your work done without worrying about how it’s going to look or waiting for your preview to update.

In addition to Scrivener support, Marked now supports everything from clipboard previews to MarsEdit blog post previews. It has a fast search, keyword highlighting and much more. Here’s a taste:

* MultiMarkdown 4.2 built in, including inline footnotes
* Alternative “Discount” parser built in
* Fountain support
* CriticMarkup support
* Advanced document statistics with reading time and readability indexes
* Custom processor, pre-processor and additional arguments fields
* Collapse/expand sections by headlines for fast navigation

New and improved search features:
* Case sensitive option
* Whole word option
* Regular expressions
* CSS selector searching

* Keyword highlighting:
* Live highlighting of common/overused phrases
* Regex/wildcard search for keyword/phrase highlighting
* Keyword drawer with match counter to easily add temporary keywords for highlighting while previewing

HTML preview improvements:
* Detect images in Markdown and HTML and watch for changes
* Detect php include(‘file’)s and watch for changes
* Detect JS and CSS in HTML files and add them to the watch list

More ways to incorporate Marked into your workflow:
* MarsEdit preview
* VoodooPad preview of current page
* Preview clipboard
* Watch any folder and preview the most recently changed file within it

Export palette/Export additional file types:
* Export DOC, DOCX or ODT
* Export RTF, or RTFD with included images
* Paginated PDF export option

Pricing and Availability:
Marked 2 is available exclusively through Paddle for $11.99 (USD). For a limited time, Marked is available as part of the “Cheaper By The Dozen” bundle from Paddle. For $34.99 you can get a wide variety of quality Mac apps, including Marked 2, Raskin, Habits and many more. For a detailed overview of Marked 2 features, please take a look at the documentation online.

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Brett Terpstra is an independent developer, author and blogger living in Minnesota, US. Copyright (C) 2012 Brett Terpstra. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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