MultiMarkdown

MultiMarkdown
Filename extensions.mmd
Developed byFletcher T. Penney
Initial releaseMay 2007 (19 years ago) (2007-05)
Latest release
6 (9 years ago)
Type of formatOpen file format
Extended fromMarkdown
Websitefletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/

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.

There is also a text editor with the same name that supports multiple export formats.

File format description

The MultiMarkdown language adds the following features to the basic Markdown specification:

Software

There are a series of open-source interactive and automated software tools for editing and conversion to XML, HTML, and LaTeX that share the same name as the format. Several other open-source and commercial text editors, such as Scrivener, also include broad MultiMarkdown support.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ideas for MultiMarkdown". fletcherpenney.net. Archived from the original on 2007-05-09.
  2. ↑ Penney, Fletcher T. (2022-06-26), fletcher/MultiMarkdown-6, retrieved 2022-06-30
  3. ↑ Penney, Fletcher T. (2022-06-26). "MultiMarkdown 6 Development Notes". Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  4. ↑ Leonard, Sean (March 2016). "Guidance on Markdown: Design Philosophies, Stability Strategies, and Select Registrations". Request for Comments: 7764. Internet Engineering Task Force. 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". fletcherpenney.net. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  6. ↑ "MultiMarkdown". fletcherpenney.net. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  7. ↑ "MultiMarkdown v6 Syntax Guide". rawgit.com. Archived from the original on 2025-03-20. Retrieved 2026-09-25.
  8. ↑ Sparks, David (2011-09-26). iPad at Work. John Wiley & Sons. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-118-20568-6.
  9. ↑ Buffalo, Vince (2015-07-01). Bioinformatics Data Skills: Reproducible and Robust Research with Open Source Tools. O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4493-6750-3.
  10. ↑ "MultiMarkdown features". fletcherpenney.net. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  11. ↑ Hernandez, Gwen (2012-07-30). Scrivener For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-31246-9.