MultiMarkdown
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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 |
|---|---|
| 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]
File format description
The MultiMarkdown language adds the following features to the basic Markdown specification:[7][8]
- footnotes
- tables
- citations and bibliography (works best in LaTeX using BibTeX)[9]
- 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[10] that share the same name as the format.[11] Several other open-source and commercial text editors, such as Scrivener, also include broad MultiMarkdown support.[12]
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