diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 08e039a..ac12f7a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -37,19 +37,19 @@ inlineMarkdownEditor({
   replaceUrl: '/wiki/replace/' + wiki_id,
   selector: '.markdown',
   preProcessor: function preProcessMarkdown(markdown) {
-    // do things to markdown here
+    // do things to markdown here before it's used to construct the form
     return markdown
   },
   postProcessor: function postProcessContent(element) {
-    // do things to element here
+    // do things to element here after the section has been converted to HTML and displayed
   },
   defaultMarkdown: function(markdown) {}, // a markdown parser
   buildSectionForm: function() {}, // return a string containing the form element
   onComplete: function(response, markdown, html, el, uniqueId, form, o) {}, // run on completing AJAX post
   isEditable: function(markdown) {}, // returns boolean; whether a given subsection should get an inline form; default skips HTML and horizontal rules
   extraButtons: { 'fa-icon-name': function(element) {} }, // object with keys of icon names for additional buttons with associated actions for each; returns jQuery element upon construction
-  submitSectionForm: function(event, before, after, options) {} // optional, to override the form submission handling for each subsection; before/after represent the text diff
-  
+  submitSectionForm: function(event, before, after, options) {}, // optional, to override the form submission handling for each subsection; before/after represent the text diff
+  editorOptions: {} // any options to pass to the built-in PublicLab.Editor instance
 });
 ```
 
diff --git a/dist/inlineMarkdownEditor.js b/dist/inlineMarkdownEditor.js
index f7225ef..867ba91 100644
--- a/dist/inlineMarkdownEditor.js
+++ b/dist/inlineMarkdownEditor.js
@@ -10237,6 +10237,7 @@ inlineMarkdownEditor = function inlineMarkdownEditor(o) {
   o.processSections = require('./processSections.js');
   var el = $(o.selector);
   o.originalMarkdown = el.html();
+  o.preProcessor = o.preProcessor || function(m) { return m; }
   // split by double-newline:
   var sections = o.originalMarkdown
                   .replace(/\n[\n]+/g, "\n\n")
@@ -10244,7 +10245,7 @@ inlineMarkdownEditor = function inlineMarkdownEditor(o) {
   var editableSections = [];
   // we also do this inside processSection, but independently track here:
   sections.forEach(function forEachSection(section, index) {
-    if (o.isEditable(section, o.originalMarkdown)) editableSections.push(section);
+    if (o.isEditable(section, o.preProcessor(o.originalMarkdown))) editableSections.push(section);
   });
   el.html('');
   // we might start running processSections only on editableSections...
@@ -10299,8 +10300,8 @@ module.exports = function isEditable(markdown, originalMarkdown) {
 
 },{}],99:[function(require,module,exports){
 module.exports = function onComplete(response, markdown, html, el, uniqueId, form, o) {
+  var message = form.find('.section-message');
   if (response === 'true' || response === true) {
-    var message = $('#' + uniqueId + ' .section-message');
     message.html('<i class="fa fa-check" style="color:green;"></i>');
     //markdown = changes;
     $('#' + uniqueId + ' textarea').val('');
@@ -10328,7 +10329,8 @@ module.exports = function processSection(markdown, o) {
       uniqueId    = "section-form-" + randomNum,
       filteredMarkdown = markdown;
 
-  if (o.preProcessor) filteredMarkdown = o.preProcessor(markdown);
+  var originalSectionMarkdown = markdown;
+  filteredMarkdown = o.preProcessor(markdown);
   html = o.defaultMarkdown(filteredMarkdown);
 
   $(o.selector).append('<div class="inline-section inline-section-' + uniqueId + '"></div>');
@@ -10341,7 +10343,7 @@ module.exports = function processSection(markdown, o) {
   var message = $('#' + uniqueId + ' .section-message');
 
   function insertFormIfMarkdown(_markdown, el, uniqueId) {
-    if (o.isEditable(_markdown, o.originalMarkdown)) {
+    if (o.isEditable(_markdown, o.preProcessor(o.originalMarkdown))) {
       var formHtml = o.buildSectionForm(uniqueId, _markdown);
       el.after(formHtml);
       var _form = $('#' + uniqueId);
@@ -10351,16 +10353,16 @@ module.exports = function processSection(markdown, o) {
         var editor;
         if (o.wysiwyg && $('#' + uniqueId).find('.wk-container').length === 0) {
           // insert rich editor
-          editor = new PL.Editor({
-            textarea: $('#' + uniqueId + ' textarea')[0]
-          });
+          var editorOptions = o.editorOptions || {};
+          editorOptions.textarea = $('#' + uniqueId + ' textarea')[0];
+          editor = new PL.Editor(editorOptions);
         }
         _form.find('.cancel').click(function inlineEditCancelClick(e) {
           e.preventDefault();
           _form.hide();
         });
         _form.find('button.submit').click(function(e) {
-          prepareAndSendSectionForm(e, _form, editor, _markdown);
+          prepareAndSendSectionForm(e, _form, editor, originalSectionMarkdown);
         });
       }
     }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index dd2ddfb..3d970bd 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "inline-markdown-editor",
-  "version": "0.2.3",
+  "version": "0.3.0",
   "description": "An inline wysiwyg markdown document editor based on replacing string subsections. WYSIWYG possible via woofmark.",
   "main": "dist/inlineMarkdownEditor.js",
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/src/inlineMarkdownEditor.js b/src/inlineMarkdownEditor.js
index 95501a4..17771ef 100644
--- a/src/inlineMarkdownEditor.js
+++ b/src/inlineMarkdownEditor.js
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ inlineMarkdownEditor = function inlineMarkdownEditor(o) {
   o.processSections = require('./processSections.js');
   var el = $(o.selector);
   o.originalMarkdown = el.html();
+  o.preProcessor = o.preProcessor || function(m) { return m; }
   // split by double-newline:
   var sections = o.originalMarkdown
                   .replace(/\n[\n]+/g, "\n\n")
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ inlineMarkdownEditor = function inlineMarkdownEditor(o) {
   var editableSections = [];
   // we also do this inside processSection, but independently track here:
   sections.forEach(function forEachSection(section, index) {
-    if (o.isEditable(section, o.originalMarkdown)) editableSections.push(section);
+    if (o.isEditable(section, o.preProcessor(o.originalMarkdown))) editableSections.push(section);
   });
   el.html('');
   // we might start running processSections only on editableSections...
diff --git a/src/onComplete.js b/src/onComplete.js
index 56756c5..1502866 100644
--- a/src/onComplete.js
+++ b/src/onComplete.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module.exports = function onComplete(response, markdown, html, el, uniqueId, form, o) {
+  var message = form.find('.section-message');
   if (response === 'true' || response === true) {
-    var message = $('#' + uniqueId + ' .section-message');
     message.html('<i class="fa fa-check" style="color:green;"></i>');
     //markdown = changes;
     $('#' + uniqueId + ' textarea').val('');
diff --git a/src/processSection.js b/src/processSection.js
index 436090c..7e4f302 100644
--- a/src/processSection.js
+++ b/src/processSection.js
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ module.exports = function processSection(markdown, o) {
       uniqueId    = "section-form-" + randomNum,
       filteredMarkdown = markdown;
 
-  if (o.preProcessor) filteredMarkdown = o.preProcessor(markdown);
+  var originalSectionMarkdown = markdown;
+  filteredMarkdown = o.preProcessor(markdown);
   html = o.defaultMarkdown(filteredMarkdown);
 
   $(o.selector).append('<div class="inline-section inline-section-' + uniqueId + '"></div>');
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ module.exports = function processSection(markdown, o) {
   var message = $('#' + uniqueId + ' .section-message');
 
   function insertFormIfMarkdown(_markdown, el, uniqueId) {
-    if (o.isEditable(_markdown, o.originalMarkdown)) {
+    if (o.isEditable(_markdown, o.preProcessor(o.originalMarkdown))) {
       var formHtml = o.buildSectionForm(uniqueId, _markdown);
       el.after(formHtml);
       var _form = $('#' + uniqueId);
@@ -27,16 +28,16 @@ module.exports = function processSection(markdown, o) {
         var editor;
         if (o.wysiwyg && $('#' + uniqueId).find('.wk-container').length === 0) {
           // insert rich editor
-          editor = new PL.Editor({
-            textarea: $('#' + uniqueId + ' textarea')[0]
-          });
+          var editorOptions = o.editorOptions || {};
+          editorOptions.textarea = $('#' + uniqueId + ' textarea')[0];
+          editor = new PL.Editor(editorOptions);
         }
         _form.find('.cancel').click(function inlineEditCancelClick(e) {
           e.preventDefault();
           _form.hide();
         });
         _form.find('button.submit').click(function(e) {
-          prepareAndSendSectionForm(e, _form, editor, _markdown);
+          prepareAndSendSectionForm(e, _form, editor, originalSectionMarkdown);
         });
       }
     }