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README.md: added some useful content

AuthorKarl Tauber <email>
Date2015-08-06 12:17:15 GMT+0200
Commit62eda01cad0eb095da7b54dbb71af7f82ac9822d
Parent7a64397
Delta75 lines added, 1 line removed, 74-line increase
README.md
==================
-A simple markdown editor written JavaFX.
+An open source [Markdown] editor written in JavaFX 8.
+
+For Markdown processing it uses [pegdown], which is nearly 100% compatible with the original [Markdown] specification and also supports parts of [Markdown Extra], [MultiMarkdown] and [Github-flavoured-Markdown].
+
+Features
+--------
+
+ * Syntax highlighting in editor
+ * Keyboard shortcuts to insert Markdown (Bold, Italic, Code, Links, Images, Header, Lists, ...)
+ * Auto-indent lists
+ * HTML preview
+ * HTML source preview
+ * Markdown AST view
+ * Multi-platform: Windows, Mac, Linux, ...
+
+TODO
+----
+
+ * auto-complete
+ * search and replace
+ * improved syntax highlighting (HTML, ...)
+ * more options
+ * directory tree view
+ * spell checker
+ * support [Kirby CMS](http://getkirby.com/) content files and tags
+ * TBD
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+Java 8u40 or later is required.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+Download markdown-writer-fx.zip and extract it to any folder.
+
+Double-click `markdown-writer-fx.jar` to start *Markdown Writer FX*.
+
+If this does not work, try following command in a terminal window:
+
+```
+java -jar markdown-writer-fx.jar
+```
+
+Changes
+-------
+
+See [Change Log](CHANGES.md)
+
+Credits
+-------
+
+ * Tomas Mikula for [RichTextFX], [ReactFX], [WellBehavedFX], [Flowless] and [UndoFX]
+ * Mikael Grev for [MigLayout] and Tom Eugelink and MigPane
+ * sirthias for [pegdown] Markdown parser
+ * Jens Deters for [FontAwesomeFX]
+
+License
+-------
+
+*Markdown Writer FX* is open source licensed under the [BSD 2-Clause License](LICENSE)
+ [Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
+ [pegdown]: https://github.com/sirthias/pegdown
+ [Markdown Extra]: https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/
+ [MultiMarkdown]: http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/
+ [Github-flavoured-Markdown]: https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/
+ [MigLayout]: https://github.com/mikaelgrev/miglayout
+ [RichTextFX]: https://github.com/TomasMikula/RichTextFX
+ [ReactFX]: https://github.com/TomasMikula/ReactFX
+ [WellBehavedFX]: https://github.com/TomasMikula/WellBehavedFX
+ [Flowless]: https://github.com/TomasMikula/Flowless
+ [UndoFX]: https://github.com/TomasMikula/UndoFX
+ [FontAwesomeFX]: https://bitbucket.org/Jerady/fontawesomefx
+