Mellel 6 released (Mac only)

Posted by Dormouse
Dec 15, 2023 at 10:57 PM

I don’t think markdown editors have had much to do with the collapse of the market for word processors.
Some of it is the move to the web and digital and that most people - and even businesses - have a much reduced need for printing. And half the design of a word processor is based on printing.
Part of it is the rise of competent free word processors - Docs and Open/Libre Office.

And some part is due to the dominance of MS Word.
A part of that is the gradual improvements in Word from a writing point of view. I now do my formal writing in Word, which I have never done prior to this year. I don’t know when it’s features hit the point where I would have considered it adequate or preferred, but I spent years wondering why so many writers didn’t use something better. I’ve also found that David Hewson (writer of books about Scrivener and Ulysses) has made the switch too - https://twitter.com/david_hewson/status/1529463722565058561 .
Other programs might - but usually don’t - work as well and the ubiquity means that I can rely on any collaborators having access to it, and, since it is the format I have, there’s never a point when I have to convert to meet the final stage requirement of having it in docx format.