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Comment by ricardobeat | Hacker News Reader

Hmm.. it's Mou (http://mouapp.com/) with bad typography and the usual Windows clutter :)

The typography seems to be at least partly fixable. Go into Tools/Options and you can easily change the editor font, or with quite a lot more work change the preview fonts.

Evan, since we're talking typography, a few suggestions...

* Why default the editor to such an ugly font as Courier New? There's no real reason to use a monospaced font at all here, but if you must go monospaced at least put Consolas in front. It would be even better to use a nice proportional font such as Georgia - both in the markdown editor and in the CSS editor within the options dialog.

* Don't limit the font size selector to even numbers when you get above 12. I want Georgia 15! :-)

* The preview window text is awfully small on a high-density monitor like my ThinkPad W510's 145 pixel per inch display. I see how to edit the CSS to make the text bigger (although in a quick test it didn't seem to work at all - will fiddle with it some more) - but with every element sized in px it's a bit of a pain to just make everything bigger. Maybe size everything in percents and just have an overall px size on the body, or some similar technique? Then I could just change one number and make everything bigger.

Thanks for the great feedback! I'm taking notes on everything you mentioned - will work on these for the next release.

Would you mind sending me an email, evan [at] markdownpad.com? I'd love to talk typography some more.

I have to disagree with you regarding mono-spaced fonts; atleast if people want more than a wysiwyg markdown editor. The structure of markdown documents is much easier to discern with a mono-spaced font.

Do you edit a lot of markdown text in a font that is not mono-spaced?

Because having an options menu is "clutter".

If you're going to use menu buttons for formatting, you could just get rid of the left pane altogether, use it as a WYSIWYG editor and export to markdown. So, yes, in my opinion it is clutter when you don't need it.

The toolbars and status bar can both be hidden under the View menu.

That's nice, although I mantain my point.

I'd like to add that, despite my bitterness, I appreciate having this on windows too, so congrats/thanks for the app :)

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