Version 19 of Markdown

Updated 2014-11-08 09:05:21 by APN

Markdown is a lightweight markup language.

Description

Originally created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz, Markdown allows people "to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML or HTML. It is used to make the sources of static web pages more human readable, and it is also more pleasant to write in than HTML. It has been used as a wiki formatting language, for example at StackOverflow .


anoved - 2012-12-20 19:22:24

A variant of Markdown is heavily used at GitHub, a git repository host, for formatting Readmes, issues, and other comments. http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/

HJG 2013-09-22 - Another variant of Markdown: http://txt2tags.org/ . It uses python, and supports output to HTML, XHTML, SGML, DocBook, LaTeX, Lout, Man page, Creole, Wikipedia/MediaWiki, Google Code Wiki, PmWiki, DokuWiki, MoinMoin, MagicPoint, PageMaker, AsciiDoc, ASCII Art, Plain text.

Tools

TclSundown (missing in action)
Tcl wrapper around Sundown, a Markdown processor
tclhoedown
Tcl wrapper around Hoedown, a Markdown processor forked from Sundown (Sundown is no longer maintained)
caius
The CAIUS project has a pure Tcl package for processing Markdown.

See Also

MultiMarkdown
an extended version of Markdown