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Markdown [9] is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read markup language. [9] Markdown is widely used for blogging and instant messaging, and also used elsewhere in online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files.
Rich Text Format (RTF) – Microsoft format for exchanging documents with other vendors' applications. (It is not really a markup language, as it was never meant for intuitive and easy typing. [16] [17]) Uniform Office Format (UOF) – open format for office documents, being harmonised with OpenDocument.
MakeDoc was originally designed to allow authors to create formatted documentation without the need for word processing software. [2] Any ordinary text editor, including web input forms can be used for input, and the output can be HTML, PDF, or ordinary text.
Example of RecipeML, a simple markup language based on XML for creating recipes. The markup can be converted programmatically for display into, for example, HTML, PDF or Rich Text Format. A markup language is a text-encoding system which specifies the structure and formatting of a document and potentially the relationships among its parts. [1]
Hypertext documents SGML: Tag Yes Yes [9] Yes Lilypond: Music notation: Control code Yes Yes Maker Interchange Format (MIF) Technical documents Tag Yes Yes Markdown: Formatted Technical documents, Hypertext documents, E-mail: Text E-mail conventions Tag Yes Yes Yes Math Markup Language (MathML) Mathematical documents XML: Tag Yes Yes [10]
MkDocs converts Markdown files into HTML pages, effectively creating a static website containing documentation.. Markdown is extensible, and the MkDocs ecosystem exploits its extensible nature through a number of extensions [2] [3] that help with for autogenerating documentation from source code, adding admonitions, writing mathematical notation, inserting footnotes, highlighting source code etc.
In 2004, screenwriter John August was looking for a Markdown-like syntax for formatting text documents into screenplay form. In 2008, he and Yousefi released Scrippets, a plug-in for WordPress and other platforms that allowed users to embed short sections of a screenplay in blog posts and forums, using formatting hinted from plain text.
Pandoc is a free-software document converter, widely used as a writing tool (especially by scholars) [2] and as a basis for publishing workflows. [3] It was created by John MacFarlane , a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley .