MultiMarkdown
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MultiMarkdown is a lightweight markup language
created by Fletcher S. Penney and based on Markdown
, which supports more export-formats and implements some added features currently not available with plain Markdown syntax.
It adds the following features to Markdown:
Lightweight markup language
A lightweight markup language is a markup language with a simple syntax, designed to be easy for a human to enter with a simple text editor, and easy to read in its raw form....
created by Fletcher S. Penney and based on Markdown
Markdown
Markdown is a lightweight markup language, originally created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz allowing people "to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML "...
, which supports more export-formats and implements some added features currently not available with plain Markdown syntax.
It adds the following features to Markdown:
- footnotes
- tables
- citations and bibliography (works best in LaTeX using BibTeX)
- 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.)