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 A demo is at <http://www.attacklab.net/showdown-gui.html>
 
-(I read about this on the markdown mailing list.)
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+(I read about this on the markdown mailing list.)
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+> [[Wikiwyg]] also can provide a nice GUI for editing, although it would
+> need to be expanded to support markdown. The benefit compared to showdown
+> is that it provides a GUI for editing with widets for italics, etc,
+> compared to showdown which still leaves input in markdown and seems more
+> geared to a fast preview of the html. --[[Joey]]
+
+> Since we have semi-working wikiwgy and it's better, I'm considering this
+> todo item as [[done]] or rather, will-not-be-done..
+
+>> Given the unfortunate state of affairs for the wikiwyg project, could it
+>> be worthwhile to consider this option again? It seems to have a companion
+>> product (wmd) with formatting widgets and a live preview pane, that is
+>> promised to be MIT licensed as of the next release.... --Chapman Flack
+
+>>> What sort of integration would be needed to put in WMD?
+>>> It looks like it would need to be aware of some plugin/wikiword behavior
+>>> ... perhaps taking a Wikiword and making it appear like a link in preview, but
+>>> with a different style (perhaps diff color/font).  For plugin commands,
+>>> applying a 'real' preview would probably be difficult, so it'd probably
+>>> be necessary to insert some sort of placeholder, perhaps by outputting
+>>> the text in monospace form w/ a lighter font to denote that it won't
+>>> directly be shown in the page... -- [[harningt]]
+
+>>>>> We have a wmd plugin now. --[[Joey]]