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]
Filename extensions | .mmd |
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Developed by | Fletcher T. Penney |
Initial release | May 2007[1] |
Latest release | |
Type of format | Open file format |
Extended from | Markdown[4] |
Website | rawgit |
There is also a text editor with the same name that supports multiple export formats.[6]
The MultiMarkdown language adds the following features to the basic Markdown specification:[7][8]
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_(software), also include broad MultiMarkdown support.[12]
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.