What is the simplest implementation of Markdown for a Cocoa application?

Question

I\'m writing a Cocoa application in Objective-C, and I would like to be able to incorporate Markdown. The user will enter text in Markdown syntax, click an \"export\" button

Answer 1

I found problems with processing large amounts of markdown with these C-based libraries.

There's a very simple Obj-C library that worked for me here:

https://github.com/mdiep/MMMarkdown

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Steps to use MMMarkdown:

1. Build the OS X or iOS target

2. Copy include/MMMarkdown.h and either lib/libMMMarkdown-Mac.a or lib/libMMMarkdown-iOS.a into your project

3. Then the code is:

#import "MMMarkdown.h"

NSError  *error;
NSString *markdown   = @"# Example\nWhat a library!";
NSString *htmlString = [MMMarkdown HTMLStringWithMarkdown:markdown error:&error];
// Returns @"
Example
\n
What a library!
"