A Think C Mac Toolbox based markdown for the classic Macintosh System 7.
I use a markdown editor on my modern mac for writing, but I wanted to use the old Mac as a writing machine.
It's a WIP and development will be very slow, as I've never done any MacToolbox coding before and I'm learning as I go. I' ll be leveraging some form of AI to help me, but as a tutor, not a code writer.
Goals:
- Use the WASTE engine
- Support documents up to 1MB, outside of the TEdit limits
- Though I may use TEdit to page through the view.
- Formatting will be done on what's visible, not the whole document.
- Support basic markdown XL tags:
- bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, delete, comment visually.
- Annotation, links at least so they don't break
- Probably no support for images, ever.
- Sucessful translation from UFT to MacRoman when saving
Out Of Scope
- Image support
- Super fast optimization — I prefer works and not buggy over speed within reason
- Undo for now
- Any formats besides .txt., .md (e.g. no RTF, word)
Whatever I make will be freely available.
v0.1
- Used AI make it entirely, just to see what it might do: it's very buggy. I don't understand most of it.
v0.2
- First manual attempt: Successful Mac toolbox setup and windowing
v0.3 (proposed)
- Would like to have basic TEdit capabilities, then move twoards formatting.