This Applikation is a small markdown Editor with a live preview… I hope this helps you to write your README.md on GitHub 
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If any designer see this App and want make design YOU ARE WELCOME! 
Big thx to Lennart for porting the C markdown parser to ActionScript 3.0 with Alchemy…
Source Code of Markdown Editor
Download AIR Runtime AIR Beta 2
Features:
· Drag Drop of Markdown Files
· Live preview in HTML
· Save HTML
· Save Markdown files
· Open Markdown files
Cool. I can't seem to find Lennart's markdown project anywhere though.. how did you build the markdown.swc?
@shaun I built a small wrapper kind around discount 1.5.5 (http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/) based on the alchemy-version of a jpeg-en/decoder. I put the code I wrote into a gist http://gist.github.com/376379 but I think it needs to be fixed for discount 1.6.4. You need to build the libmarkdown.a with alchemy first and then compile as3markdown.c into an swc, my current setup seems broken so the only running swc is the one francis is using. hope this helps, lennart
Thanks for the response! I wonder if it would be simpler for now to just port Showdown (javascript) to AS3 – alchemy being in Beta and not recommended for production code. Also, as HTML in the Flash Player is so limited, it might be better use a stripped-down port of Showdown, and tweak it in a way that's friendly for Flash Textfields. Just thinking aloud..
http://varga-multimedia/post/markdown-parser/ma… link is broken. Can you please fix it?
Use this one => http://github.com/FrancisVarga/airmarkdownedito…