Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 .
Zim offers the ability to create customizable plugins, custom tools with Python, and customizable themes including dark mode and button styles. [8] In Zim, text is written and saved in a lightweight mark-up that is a hybrid of DokuWiki and Markdown. The wiki editor accepts input in either WYSIWYG format or markdown source code.
Like Javadoc, Doxygen extracts documentation from source file comments.In addition to the Javadoc syntax, Doxygen supports the documentation tags used in the Qt toolkit and can generate output in HyperText Markup Language as well as in Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM), Rich Text Format (RTF), Portable Document Format (PDF), LaTeX, PostScript or man pages.
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.
As with Adobe Acrobat, Nitro PDF Pro's reader is free; but unlike Adobe's free reader, Nitro's free reader allows PDF creation (via a virtual printer driver, or by specifying a filename in the reader's interface, or by drag-'n-drop of a file to Nitro PDF Reader's Windows desktop icon); Ghostscript not needed. PagePlus: Proprietary: No
reStructuredText (RST, ReST, or reST) is a file format for textual data used primarily in the Python programming language community for technical documentation.. It is part of the Docutils project of the Python Doc-SIG (Documentation Special Interest Group), aimed at creating a set of tools for Python similar to Javadoc for Java or Plain Old Documentation (POD) for Perl.
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.