Pinery: Markdown Editor for Books
@cyrusandrew That’s a good question! Typora is a good Markdown editor. But it differs from Pinery in the following:
– It doesn’t have a live preview of the book as Pinery. Typora folds the Markdown tags and kind of mimics a preview.
– Pinery allows you to fine-tune and easily customize the typography, paragraph spaces, and the layout of the book while previewing it, before exporting.
– Typora is mostly designed to work with one MD file. It can work with multiple, but you have to import a folder. Pinery was designed for books, so multiple files and asses are bundled in a .pinery file format.
– Typora offers way more exporting formats because it works with Pandoc, but you have to install a command-line tool, and the output file doesn’t seem production-ready. Pinery is focused on fewer formats: PDF, ePub, and HTML. But you have control over the output as you can customize the design, embed fonts, and export a production-ready ePub 3, for example.
– Pinery also simulates an eReader with paper ink display so you can check colours and images.
