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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.
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.
HTMLDOC is a previously commercially developed open-source program that converts HTML and Markdown web pages and files to EPUB, indexed HTML, PostScript, and PDF files, complete with a table of contents. HTMLDOC can be used from the command line, a simple GUI, or from a web server.
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] There is also a text editor with the same name that supports multiple export formats. [6]
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 .
Sphinx converts reStructuredText files into HTML websites and other formats including PDF, EPub, Texinfo and man. reStructuredText is extensible, and Sphinx exploits its extensible nature through a number of extensions – for autogenerating documentation from source code, writing mathematical notation or highlighting source code, etc.
Textile is a lightweight markup language that uses a text formatting syntax to convert plain text into structured HTML markup. Textile is used for writing articles, forum posts, readme documentation, and any other type of written content published online.
Web browser (XHTML or HTML output) Markdown: 2004 John Gruber and Aaron Swartz: Text editor, E-mail client: Web browser (XHTML or HTML output), preview in gedit-markdown-plugin Math Markup Language (MathML) 1999 (July) W3C: Text/XML editor, TeX converter Web browser, Word processor: The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) 1999 The MEI Community XML ...