Some of his ideas were implemented and expanded on in MultiMarkdown, including tables, footnotes, citation support, image and link attributes, cross-references, math support, and more. Michel Fortin added a few additional syntax features when writing PHP Markdown Extra. In addition to the ability to work with complete documents and conversion to formats beyond HTML, the Markdown syntax was lacking a few other things. I wrote MultiMarkdown in order to leverage Markdown’s syntax, but to extend it to work with complete documents that could ultimately be converted from text into other formats, including complete HTML documents, LaTeX, PDF, and ODF. Markdown is great, but it lacked a few features that would allow it to work with entire documents, rather than just pieces of a web page. Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email. Text-to-HTML filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing Like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. The idea is that a Markdown-formattedĭocument should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to Pertaining to Markdown’s formatting syntax. Syntax and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting MarkdownĪllows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain textįormat, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. The best description of what Markdown is comes from John Gruber’s
To understand what MultiMarkdown is, you first should be familiar with
MultiMarkdown is a superset of the Markdown lightweight markup syntax with support for additional output formats and features.
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