markdown wiki

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Resources

• John Gruber's official Markdown project page
• Mailing list (Gmane gateway)
• Markdown Syntax (also available in German)
• Wikipedia article
• Suggested feature discussions:
  • Tables
  • Definition Lists
  • Superscript-subscript

Implementations

• Perl:
  • Markdown by John Gruber
  • MultiMarkdown by Fletcher Penney
• PHP: PHP Markdown by Michel Fortin
• Python:
  • python-markdown by Yuri Takhteyev
    • Extending PythonMarkdown
  • python wrapper around Markdown.pl
  • markdown.py by Aaron Swartz, discontinued in favour of python-markdown
• Ruby:
  • BlueCloth
  • Maruku by Andrea Censi
  • Tartan by Larry Baltz and David Anderson (generic engine; Markdown and tests implemented as a YAML description)
• C:
  • Discount by David Parsons
  • PEG-markdown by John MacFarlane
• C#: Markdown.NET by Milan Negovan
• Java: MarkdownJ
• Javascript:
  • Showdown
  • js-markdown (deprecated)
• Common Lisp:
  • CL-Markdown by Gary King
  • markdown.lisp by Levi Pearson
• Lua: markdown.lua by Niklas Frykholm
• Haskell: pandoc by John MacFarlane (converts Markdown to HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, reStructuredText, S5, groff man, DocBook, and RTF, and partially converts HTML, LaTeX, and reStructuredText to Markdown)

Tests

• MarkdownTest
• MultiMarkdownTestSuite
• BabelMark markdown testbed (compare many markdown implementations on the same input)

Blog Software Support

• Blojsom (with plugin)
• Drupal (with plugin)
• Movable Type (with plugin)
• Typo
• WordPress (with plugin)
• Expression Engine (with plugin, proprietary)
• XML_website

Wiki Support

Built-in / default

• Infogami (Python)
• Informl (Ruby, additional markup for forms and DB queries)
• IkiWiki (Perl)
• Instiki (Ruby)
• Nanoki (Lua)
• Sputnik (Lua)

Through a module/plugin

• DokuWiki
• Oddmuse
• MoinMoin (plugin)
• PMwiki (plugin which adds a (:markdown:) “tag” to wrap around Markdown, and inside the tag, WikiWords are non-functional)

Text Editor Support

• SubEthaEdit: SubEthaEdit Markdown Preview
• Vim: Markdown Vim Mode
• TextMate: has built-in support
• BBEdit: has built-in support (syntax highlighting, preview without requiring conversion to HTML) as of version 8.6
  • Python method by Jan-Erik Moström
  • PHP method by Tim Brayshaw
• GEdit: Very experimental support by Ulrik Sverdrup
• Eclipse: Experimental plugin by Daniel Winterstein

Other Desktop Software

Mac OS X:

• MarkdownDragAndDrop by Fletcher Penney
• Humane Text Service
• OmniOutlinerMarkdownPlugin by Fletcher Penney

Other Tools and Howtos

(X)HTML to Markdown:

• Python: html2text.py by Aaron Swartz
• PHP: html2text.php by Milian Wolff
• XSLT: XHTML-to-Markdown by Andrew Green
• Haskell: pandoc, by John MacFarlane

Markdown to LaTeX, Markdown+LaTeX to MathML, etc.

• pandoc (Haskell)
• MultiMarkdown by Fletcher Penney
• TeXdown

Software that Exports to Markdown

• refbase (web-based literature management app that outputs citations in Markdown format)

Document Management with Markdown

• Using Markdown and Make to maintain a bunch of documents
• Markdown2Book

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