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Markdown - Text-to-HTML conversion tool

'Markdown' is a text-to-HTML conversion tool that lets you write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). Thus, 'markdown' is both a plain text formatting syntax and a software tool, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML.

The overriding design goal for Markdown's formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. Ideally, a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it has been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. The single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown's syntax is the format of plain text email.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
Source tarball http://daringfireball.net/projects/downloads/Markdown_1.0b4.zip
Version 1.0b4 (beta) released on 2004-03-25
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Help List<markdown-discuss@six.pairlist.net> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
Developer List<markdown-discuss@six.pairlist.net> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
Bug List<markdown-discuss@six.pairlist.net> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss

Project contacts

Maintainers
  • John Gruber
Developers
  • John Gruber

Related information

Interfacesweb, command line
Source languagesPerl
Related programsBHL, Grutatext, t2t, Vilistextum, RTF to HTML, rtf-converter

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2004-05-21
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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