MultiMarkdown

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MultiMarkdown
Filename extensions.mmd
Developed byFletcher T. Penney
Initial releaseMay 2007 (17 years ago) (2007-05)[1]
Latest release
6 (7 years ago)[2][3]
Type of formatOpen file format
Extended fromMarkdown[4]
Websiterawgit.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]

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]

  • footnotes
  • tables
  • citations and bibliography (works best in LaTeX using BibTeX)[9]
  • 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[10] that share the same name as the format.[11] Several other open-source and commercial text editors, such as Scrivener, also include broad MultiMarkdown support.[12]

See also

References

  1. "Ideas for MultiMarkdown". http://fletcherpenney.net/Ideas_for_MultiMarkdown. 
  2. Penney, Fletcher T. (2022-06-26), fletcher/MultiMarkdown-6, https://github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-6, retrieved 2022-06-30 
  3. Penney, Fletcher T. (2022-06-26). "MultiMarkdown 6 Development Notes". https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-6/develop/DevelopmentNotes/DevelopmentNotes.txt. 
  4. Leonard, Sean (March 2016). "Guidance on Markdown: Design Philosophies, Stability Strategies, and Select Registrations". Request for Comments: 7764 (Internet Engineering Task Force). https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7764. 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". https://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/features/. 
  6. "MultiMarkdown". https://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/. 
  7. "Human Markdown Reference". https://rawgit.com/fletcher/human-markdown-reference/master/index.html. 
  8. "MultiMarkdown v6 Syntax Guide". https://rawgit.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-6-Syntax-Guide/master/index.html. 
  9. Sparks, David (2011-09-26) (in en). iPad at Work. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 176. ISBN 978-1-118-20568-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=GdkyaMrMuaIC&pg=PA176. 
  10. Buffalo, Vince (2015-07-01) (in en). Bioinformatics Data Skills: Reproducible and Robust Research with Open Source Tools. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". ISBN 978-1-4493-6750-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=FRERCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT69. 
  11. "MultiMarkdown features". https://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/features/. 
  12. Hernandez, Gwen (2012-07-30) (in en). Scrivener For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-31246-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=zIRGi5slWk8C&pg=PT267. 

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