This I wrote in ReText - "a simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText markup languages."

For an article I usually do not find the time to write it in one session and I prefer to have an option to save my text and restart later.

Furthermore I'm not a #Markdown hero and often produce syntax errors leading to unreadable documents. I love to have a preview.

Since microblog.pub does not support saving drafts, editing existing posts or previewing posts, yet, I looked for an editor for Markdown and found #ReText.

Typing this I have a preview in the right part of the window showing my text formatted using the css of microblog.pub.

Want to try it? Here's a quick start:

• Install ReText however you'll do that on your computer (for Debian there's a package offered: sudo apt-get install retext).
• Copy the file main.css from the static folder of your microblogpub installation (in #yunohost mine is located at /opt/yunohost/microblogpub/microblogpub/app/static/css/main.css) to ~/.config/ReText\ project/. I renamed mine to microblogpub.css.
• Start ReText once to let it fill the configuration file with its default settings.
• End ReText
• vi ~/.config/ReText\ project/ReText.conf to change the configuration. Here's mine as an example:

[General]
defaultPreviewState=live-preview
editorFont=Monospace
editorFontSize=14
saveWindowGeometry=true
styleSheet=/home/YOUR_USERNAME/.config/ReText project/microblogpub.css
tabInsertsSpaces=false
useWebKit=true

You need to replace YOUR_USERNAME in the above example to point styleSheet to the file in your home-directory.