Name: #Gazer
Price: 3.99 USD

#Gazer overview

With #Gazer you can quickly and conveniently view your markup-formatted (e.g. Markdown) texts. In addition to many special features to customize the application to your needs, #Gazer also has a Live-Update-feature that automatically updates the view of your document when the file is saved.

Features of #Gazer

Supported Markup Languages

#Gazer natively supports the following markup-languages: Markdown, MarkdownExtra, MultiMarkdown, BBCode, HTML, Smark, Textile, Wikitext. #Gazer automatically detects which markup-language should be used by the file extension of the file to be displayed. Within the preferences of #Gazer you can add new file extensions and change the assignment to the respective languages.

Furthermore, the additional markup language CriticMarkup is supported, which can be provided with custom CSS styles via the preferences of #Gazer.

For MultiMarkdown users there is also a special option to use the MultiMarkdown Terminal tool via the #Gazer preferences.

Automatic content updates

#Gazer updates the view automatically every time the file is saved. This allows you to edit your text in your favorite editor while viewing your formatted document.

Textbundle and Textpack support

#Gazer also supports the popular Textbundle and Textpack formats, which can also be formatted with all #Gazer supported markup-languages.

Customizing the preview

You can control the view of your documents in #Gazer using CSS files. #Gazer comes with four different styles, each with a light and dark version. In addition, you can use the default settings of #Gazer to add any number of custom CSS files that you can use for previewing.

HTML Code Preview

Instead of the formatted preview, you can also view the HTML-code of the formatted document.

Base URL Options

#Gazer provides extensive options for setting the Base URL, which allows you to display images from other directories or web pages in your documents.

More Features

Export to various formats: TXT, RTF, RTFD, ODT, DOC, PDF, HTML, Textbundle, Textpack
Edit in - open the current document in another application
copy the HTML-code to the clipboard by pressing a button
adjustment of the font size in the preview
view file in Finder
quickly toggle between dark and light user interface
Fullscreen-mode

What’s new in version 1.2.5

Bug fixes:

Fixes a potential crash of the app when running MultiMarkdown if certain conditions are met

Internal markup parser

Textile:

Improved recognition of bold (both types), italic (both types), underline, strikethrough, superscript and subscript markup and their encapsulated variants
Styles in {} e.g. in spans and other elements are now recognized and converted

MultiMarkdown:

Support for abbreviations (acronyms) [MMD v6 Syntax]
Support for superscript and subscript text
Minor adjustment of the display order for footnotes and bibliography so that they are consistent with the original MultiMarkdown
Bibliography markup conversion completely rewritten to better match the original MultiMarkdown

BBCode:

Extended support for uppercase tags
Other minor internal improvements

Smark:

Small font markup implemented
Various internal adjustments and improvements
Fixes minor conversion errors of thead and tfoot with styles
Fixes a bug in list detection where certain text sequences were incorrectly recognized as a list

#Gazer for Mac