Moodle plugins directory: Marklar | Moodle.org
Marklar
Text editor ::: editor_marklar
Maintained by 
David Mudrák
David MudrákReclaim the control over formatting your text with this Markdown friendly editor for Moodle. Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax. It allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format that is automatically converted to structurally valid HTML.
Latest release:
307 sites
163 downloads
30 fans
Current versions available: 6
Marklar - markdown friendly editor for Moodle
All online editors marklar. This one just marklar less.
It is not for everybody though. Those who do not marklar about marklar should not marklar marklar. There are other marklar better for them.
Feel a bit confused and marklar now? Click this marklar to see where marklar comes from.
Usage
- As an admin, go to Site administration > Plugins > Text editors > Manage editors
- Enable the Marklar editor
- As the user, go to your Preferences > Editor preferences and set Marklar as your preferred editor.
- Go to Preferences > Miscellaneous > Marklar editor preferences to eventually change the default behaviour of the editor.
Features
Here are intentional features of the Marklar editor, just to make it clear they are not bugs.
- Marklar is WYTIWYG - what you type is what you get (done).
- Marklar does not have buttons. Markdown syntax is to be typed manually (done).
- Marklar is not extensible via sub-plugins (done).
- Marklar sets markdown as the preferred format for new texts (done).
- Marklar can be also used for editing texts in other formats. Supported formats can be customised via user preferences (done).
- Marklar is not used for editing HTML texts by default. Another editor such like Atto or TinyMCE is loaded to do that (done).
- Marklar supports images and files embedding via filepicker (done).
- Marklar supports server-side generated preview (done).
- Marklar supports uploading images from clipboard (done).
- Marklar will support drafts auto-saving (todo).
- Marklar will do just that and nothing more - KISS principle.
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Contributors
David Mudrák (Lead maintainer)
Juan Segarra Montesinos
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Sorry Walter to hear you have troubles with getting this plugin installed and set up. I just extended the Usage section of the plugin description. Hopefully you fill find it a bit more clearer now.
The current version 0.8.2 seems to work well in Moodle 3.7 (as can be seen in moodle.org). I'll do a bit more tests and update Behat and hopefully will release a new version in following week or two.
@Water - It is not quite clear what you mean by "a lot of HTML files created with Atto". In either case, once Marklar is set as your preferred editor, you can further configure the preferences and set that it should be used for editing both HTML and markdown texts.
With regards to "can I view the html code that Marklar created" I am not sure I fully understand the question. The Marklar editor does not actually create HTML. It uses the Moodle's inbuilt feature that texts may be stored in multiple formats. Marklar does not save texts as HTML, they are saved just like you had typed them. The actual rendering from markdown to HTML happens when the text is being displayed. Hope this clarifies a bit.
Thank you Florian for the proposal. May I suggest to move this into a new issue in the plugin's tracker at github?
The latest version works well in Moodle 4.0 (as can be seen here on moodle.org itself, where this editor is installed, too). I just forgot to mark it as supported, sorry for that.
This should work: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Multimedia_plugins_filter
@cyber sec I believe that's not actually an editor-specific issue, but a result of your moodle site and user preferences setup.
I don't think it's Marklar feature. It seems like moodle core behaviour -- please try with the plain textarea editor.