MultiMarkdown

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MultiMarkdown
Filename extensions .mmd
Developed byFletcher T. Penney
Initial releaseMay 2007(16 years ago) (2007-05) [1]
Latest release
6 (6 years ago) [2] [3]
Type of format Open file format
Extended from Markdown [4]
Website rawgit.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-6-Syntax-Guide/master/index.html

MultiMarkdown is a lightweight markup language created by Fletcher T. Penney as an extension of the Markdown format. It supports additional features not available in plain Markdown syntax. [5]

Contents

There is also a text editor with the same name that supports multiple export formats. [6]

File format description

The MultiMarkdown language adds the following features to the basic Markdown specification: [7] [8]

Software

There are a series of open-source interactive and automated software tools for editing and conversion to XML, HTML, and LaTeX [10] that share the same name as the format. [11] Several other open-source and commercial text editors, such as Scrivener_(software), also include broad MultiMarkdown support. [12]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Ideas for MultiMarkdown". fletcherpenney.net. Archived from the original on 2007-05-09.
  2. ↑ Penney, Fletcher T. (2022-06-26), fletcher/MultiMarkdown-6 , retrieved 2022-06-30
  3. ↑ Penney, Fletcher T. (2022-06-26). "MultiMarkdown 6 Development Notes" . Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  4. ↑ Leonard, Sean (March 2016). "Guidance on Markdown: Design Philosophies, Stability Strategies, and Select Registrations". Request for Comments: 7764. Internet Engineering Task Force. Retrieved 27 March 2022. This document elaborates upon the text/markdown media type for use with Markdown, a family of plain-text formatting syntaxes that optionally can be converted to formal markup languages such as HTML. Background information, local storage strategies, and additional syntax registrations are supplied.
  5. ↑ "MultiMarkdown Features". fletcherpenney.net. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  6. ↑ "MultiMarkdown". fletcherpenney.net. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  7. ↑ "Human Markdown Reference" . Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  8. ↑ "MultiMarkdown v6 Syntax Guide". rawgit.com. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  9. ↑ Sparks, David (2011-09-26). iPad at Work. John Wiley & Sons. p. 176. ISBN   978-1-118-20568-6.
  10. ↑ Buffalo, Vince (2015-07-01). Bioinformatics Data Skills: Reproducible and Robust Research with Open Source Tools. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". ISBN   978-1-4493-6750-3.
  11. ↑ "MultiMarkdown features". fletcherpenney.net. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  12. ↑ Hernandez, Gwen (2012-07-30). Scrivener For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   978-1-118-31246-9.
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