MultiMarkdown (MMD) is a lightweight markup language that is based on Markdown. This tool turns minimally marked-up plain text into well formatted documents, including HTML, PDF (using LaTeX), OPML, or OpenDocument (specifically, Flat OpenDocument or ‘.fodt’, which can in turn be converted into RTF, Microsoft Word, or virtually any other word-processing format).
MMD is a superset of the Markdown syntax. It supports more export-formats and implements some added features currently not available with plain Markdown syntax. It also offers mechanisms to convert plain text into LaTeX in addition to HTML.
MMD started as a Perl script. Writing with MMDF allows you to separate the content and structure of your document from the formatting.
Adds features to Markdown including:
- Footnotes.
- Tables.
- Citations and bibliography (works best in LaTeX using BibTeX).
- Math support.
- Automatic cross-referencing ability.
- Builds in smart typography (such as proper left- and right-sided quotes), 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).
Website: fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown
Support: GitHub
Developer: Fletcher T. Penney
License: GPL and MIT licenses
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