MultiMarkdown explained

MultiMarkdown
Noextcode:	on
Extensions:	.mmd
Nomimecode:	on
Owner:	Fletcher T. Penney
Released:	^[1]
Latest Release Version:	6 (years ago)^[2]
Genre:	Markup language
Extended From:	Markdown^[3]
Type:	Open file format

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.^[4]

There is also a text editor with the same name that supports multiple export formats.^[5]

File format description

The MultiMarkdown language adds the following features to the basic Markdown specification:^{[6] [7]}

• footnotes
• tables
• citations and bibliography (works best in LaTeX using BibTeX)^[8]
• math support
• automatic cross-referencing ability
• smart typography, 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.)

Software

There are a series of open-source interactive and automated software tools for editing and conversion to XML, HTML, and LaTeX^[9] that share the same name as the format.^[10] Several other open-source and commercial text editors, such as Scrivener_(software), also include broad MultiMarkdown support.^[11]

See also

• Setext
• Markdown
• XML

External links

• MultiMarkdown

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ideas for MultiMarkdown . dead. 2007-05-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070509004910/http://fletcherpenney.net/Ideas_for_MultiMarkdown . fletcherpenney.net.
2. Web site: Penney . Fletcher T. . MultiMarkdown 6 Development Notes . 2022-06-26 . 2022-06-30.
3. Guidance on Markdown: Design Philosophies, Stability Strategies, and Select Registrations . Internet Engineering Task Force . Request for Comments: 7764 . March 2016 . 27 March 2022 . Leonard, Sean . 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..
4. Web site: MultiMarkdown Features. 2022-06-30 . fletcherpenney.net.
5. Web site: MultiMarkdown . 2022-06-30 . fletcherpenney.net.
6. Web site: Human Markdown Reference . 2022-06-30.
7. Web site: MultiMarkdown v6 Syntax Guide . 2022-06-30 . rawgit.com.
8. Book: Sparks, David . iPad at Work . 2011-09-26 . John Wiley & Sons . 978-1-118-20568-6 . 176 . en.
9. Book: Buffalo, Vince . Bioinformatics Data Skills: Reproducible and Robust Research with Open Source Tools . 2015-07-01 . "O'Reilly Media, Inc." . 978-1-4493-6750-3 . en.
10. Web site: MultiMarkdown features . 2022-06-30 . fletcherpenney.net.
11. Book: Hernandez, Gwen . Scrivener For Dummies . 2012-07-30 . John Wiley & Sons . 978-1-118-31246-9 . en.