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: GNU General Public License and MIT License
Related Software
| Lightweight Markup Languages | |
|---|---|
| Markdown | Markup language and Text-to-HTML conversion tool |
| MultiMarkdown | Based on Markdown with additional features |
| GitHub Flavored Markdown | For user content on GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise |
| Markdown Extra | Lightweight markup language based on Markdown |
| AsciiDoc | Presentable text document format for writing articles |
| Textile | Billed as a "humane web text generator" |
| Texy | Text-to-XHTML formatter and converter library |
| Tome | Markup Language and Tool Suite for Authors |
| reStructuredText | Markup Syntax and Parser Component of Docutils |
| Haml | Templating engine for HTML |
| JsonML | Map between XML and JSON |
| TOML | Tom’s Obvious Minimal Language |
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