MultiMarkdown
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| owner = Fletcher T. Penney
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|archive-date=2007-05-09 |title=Ideas for MultiMarkdown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509004910/http://fletcherpenney.net/Ideas_for_MultiMarkdown |website=fletcherpenney.net}}
| latest release version = 6 ({{age|2017|03|28|paren=yes}} years ago){{Citation |last=Penney |first=Fletcher T. |title=fletcher/MultiMarkdown-6 |date=2022-06-26 |url=https://github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-6 |access-date=2022-06-30}}{{Cite web |last=Penney |first=Fletcher T. |title=MultiMarkdown 6 Development Notes |date=2022-06-26 |url= https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-6/develop/DevelopmentNotes/DevelopmentNotes.txt |access-date=2022-06-30}}
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| extended from = Markdown{{cite journal | url=https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7764 | title=Guidance on Markdown: Design Philosophies, Stability Strategies, and Select Registrations | publisher=Internet Engineering Task Force | journal=Request for Comments: 7764 | date=March 2016 | accessdate=27 March 2022 | author=Leonard, Sean | quote=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.}}
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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.{{Cite web |title=MultiMarkdown Features|url=https://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/features/ |access-date=2022-06-30 |website=fletcherpenney.net}}
There is also a text editor with the same name that supports multiple export formats.{{Cite web |title=MultiMarkdown |url=https://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/ |access-date=2022-06-30 |website=fletcherpenney.net}}
File format description
The MultiMarkdown language adds the following features to the basic Markdown specification:{{cite web |title=Human Markdown Reference |url=https://rawgit.com/fletcher/human-markdown-reference/master/index.html |access-date=2022-06-30}}{{Cite web |title=MultiMarkdown v6 Syntax Guide |url=https://rawgit.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-6-Syntax-Guide/master/index.html |access-date=2022-06-30 |website=rawgit.com}}
- footnotes
- tables
- citations and bibliography (works best in LaTeX using BibTeX){{Cite book |last=Sparks |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GdkyaMrMuaIC&pg=PA176 |title=iPad at Work |date=2011-09-26 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-118-20568-6 |pages=176 |language=en}}
- math support
- automatic cross-referencing ability
- smart typography, with support for multiple languages
- image attributes
- table and image captions
- definition lists
- glossary entries (LaTeX only)
- document metadata (e.g. title, author, date, etc.)
Software
There are a series of open-source interactive and automated software tools for editing and conversion to XML, HTML, and LaTeX{{Cite book |last=Buffalo |first=Vince |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FRERCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT69 |title=Bioinformatics Data Skills: Reproducible and Robust Research with Open Source Tools |date=2015-07-01 |publisher="O'Reilly Media, Inc." |isbn=978-1-4493-6750-3 |language=en}} that share the same name as the format.{{Cite web |title=MultiMarkdown features |url=https://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/features/ |access-date=2022-06-30 |website=fletcherpenney.net}} Several other open-source and commercial text editors, such as Scrivener, also include broad MultiMarkdown support.{{Cite book |last=Hernandez |first=Gwen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zIRGi5slWk8C&pg=PT267 |title=Scrivener For Dummies |date=2012-07-30 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-118-31246-9 |language=en}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/ MultiMarkdown]