Typora

Typora is a simple and configurable document editor that provides excellent Markdown support. This application is ideal for students and professionals who need to write essays and reports. It might be difficult using Typora for multi-file projects or for website publishing.

Typora stands out by offering a variety of settings without sacrificing the simplicity of a barebones interface. Newcomers to Markdown may appreciate the keyboard shortcuts for formatting options as well as the intuitive live editor that hides the Markdown formatting syntax after you type it.

See the Typora Markdown reference for the official documentation. The Typora documentation indicates that the application generally uses GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM).

Typora Markdown Support

Typora provides support for the following Markdown elements.

Element	Support	Notes
Headings	Yes
Paragraphs	Yes	By default, you only need to press the Return key once (not twice). See the Typora documentation for more information.
Line Breaks	Yes	By default, you need to press Command-Shift-Return. See the Typora documentation for more information.
Bold	Yes
Italic	Yes
Blockquotes	Yes
Ordered Lists	Yes
Unordered Lists	Yes
Code	Yes
Horizontal Rules	Yes
Links	Yes	See the Typora documentation for instructions on linking to files on your computer.
Images	Yes	To insert images from your computer, use the options under Format > Images.
Tables	Yes
Fenced Code Blocks	Yes
Syntax Highlighting	Yes	See the list of supported languages.
Footnotes	Yes
Heading IDs	Partial	Automatically generated. For example, if you have a heading called Heading IDs, you can link to it with [link](#heading-ids). There’s apparently no way to set custom heading IDs. It’s unclear what happens when there are two identical headings.
Definition Lists	No
Strikethrough	Yes
Task Lists	Yes
Emoji (copy and paste)	Yes
Emoji (shortcodes)	Yes
Highlight	Yes	To use this feature, open the Preferences and enable the setting under Markdown > Syntax Support.
Subscript	Yes	To use this feature, open the Preferences and enable the setting under Markdown > Syntax Support.
Superscript	Yes	To use this feature, open the Preferences and enable the setting under Markdown > Syntax Support.
Automatic URL Linking	Yes
Disabling Automatic URL Linking	Yes
HTML	Partial	See the Typora documentation for information about which HTML elements are supported.

Themes

Typora provides a variety of themes for when you export your documents. If you know CSS, you can customize these themes. Open the Preferences window and see the settings under Appearance > Themes.

Strict Mode

Typora provides strict mode settings for users who want to enforce syntax limitations on headings, ordered lists, and unordered lists. For example, you could configure unordered lists to only use hyphens and not asterisks. Configure these settings in the Preferences window under Markdown > Syntax Preference. See the Typora documentation for additional information.

Source Code Mode

You can disable Typora’s live editor by selecting View > Source Code Mode. This will reveal all of the Markdown formatting that’s hidden by the live editor.

Export Options

Typora provides a wide variety of export options under File > Export for when you’re ready to publish your Markdown document. Some of the export options, like Microsoft Word and LaTeX format, require Pandoc.

See Also

• Typora support